The KOH arrived last night! It took well over a week to get here, but it was over a holiday weekend, so I guess that's not completely ridiculous.
So, this morning I got up and prepared my methanol/KOH mixture. They weren't joking when they said it gets hot! So right now I have methoxide in a chemical jug on a humid day. If something goes wrong with this batch, I'm thinking it's most likely going to be excess water from the air. I'm hoping it's not that bad, since I started in the morning before the heat picked up all the dew and so on. I suppose we'll see!
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