Kalk Paste Recipe?

[Wy Renegade]

Anybody have the recipe handy? I can't ever remember the stupid thing, and I have some nuscience nems to eliminate in preperation for the growout. TIA

Off to search the internet - google is your friend ;)

[XSiVE]

i just pour pickling lime in a dish then add water little by little until it's just wet enough to smoothly flow through one of those tiny syringe tips.

[Wy Renegade]

Cool - for some reason I was thinking it had to boiled. Maybe I was thinking of something else.

[tazzy695]

I prefer to just place some tank or RO water in a coffee mug and nuke it to boiling point then hose down the nuisance nems with the ultra hot water

gave up on using kalk for this task

[Wy Renegade]

Hhhmmm, unfortunately the rock they are attached to is a good bit bigger than a coffee mug. If the Kalk paste don't work I may give that try though.
Thanks

[Sir Patrick]

I have never used "THE" recipe, but I have made my own concoction! Has even worked on pesky majanos-

Kalkwasser
Fresh lemon juice
Vinager
Water

Mix it into a good not too think paste, pop in the microwave till it boils, and fill my syringe quick and inject. Works for me. Not a fan of zapping the same nem more than once!

[Wy Renegade]

Interesting combo Patrick

Kalk is a bas, and both lemon juice and vinager are acids; I would think that they would tend to cancel each other out. Wonder how they all work together? Obviously if it kills majanos, it must be effective.


I have never used "THE" recipe, but I have made my own concoction! Has even worked on pesky majanos-

Kalkwasser
Fresh lemon juice
Vinager
Water

Mix it into a good not too think paste, pop in the microwave till it boils, and fill my syringe quick and inject. Works for me. Not a fan of zapping the same nem more than once!

[Sir Patrick]

Maybe the chemical reactions of the 2 cause a bit more stress than is normally involved than just kalk paste??? I dont know, but when all else failed- this had decent results.

[Wy Renegade]

Maybe the chemical reactions of the 2 cause a bit more stress than is normally involved than just kalk paste??? I dont know, but when all else failed- this had decent results.

Not doubting, just trying to wrap my understanding of chemistry around the recipe. Now I might have to test it out, just to see if I can figure it out LOL.

[Sir Patrick]

I dont understand it either, but figured-

When all else fails- use all the methods at the same time! Give it a shot.

[Wy Renegade]

Doing some further reading on this, I found that mixing vinegar into water is recommended to all for the supersaturation of Kalk when making Kalkwasser. I wonder if by mixing the three, its allowing you to get a supersaturated Kalk paste which is significantly more basic and therefore more toxic than normal Kalkpaste.