{"id":49601,"date":"2017-11-17T00:56:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=49601"},"modified":"2017-11-17T00:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T04:56:41","slug":"thursday-night-soap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2017\/11\/17\/thursday-night-soap\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Soap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attempted to take a vacation today.. but still managed to work abotu a half a normal day.. all in all a good day . <\/p>\n

Cleaned my office, put away a ton of electronics.. and genereally prepared to try to do very little next week.   Around 4, DIane and I headed up to colchester for the quarterly VOMIT (Vermonsts own MIT club) meeting. Today was a tour of Twincraft soap.. i didn’t knwo what to expect.. but it was actually amazing !. .. Here are my fellow MIT alums <\/p>\n

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my buddy KC’s car has a munny license plate.. her initials.. are the chemical symbol for Potassium  Cyanide \"\"<\/p>\n

she just had her 50th MIT reunion <\/p>\n

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we all checked in to twincraft <\/p>\n

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here is Kurt, Twincrafts main formulary inventor.. and our tour guide<\/p>\n

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here we are , gowned for the tour <\/p>\n

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after a short presnetation.. we went down for the tour <\/p>\n

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here’s the raw soup in 1000 kg bags <\/p>\n

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here’s scrap soap thats sold at cost to prisons. <\/p>\n

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here’s the milling machine that shears the soap pellets <\/p>\n

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here are the ingredient bays for the days runs.. <\/p>\n

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one of the gieant mixers <\/p>\n

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the pruductin floor below <\/p>\n

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a pressing machine used to test spoap\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

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african black soap after its first milling <\/p>\n

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purpule soap !<\/p>\n

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2nd mixing and extruder <\/p>\n

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adding exfoliants (oatmeal) <\/p>\n

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heater <\/p>\n

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cutter <\/p>\n

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soap ingots <\/p>\n

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the soap is warm and still flexible <\/p>\n

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yellow soap <\/p>\n

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boxing <\/p>\n

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translucent soap <\/p>\n

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lots and lots of finsihed product !<\/p>\n

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the soap dies .. they have over 5000 shapes<\/p>\n

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extra extruder screws<\/p>\n

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lots more ingrediants <\/p>\n

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the soap lab.. where they expereiment <\/p>\n

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it was 7 pm by the time we got out. I drove DIane back to Richmond.. then headed out to waterbury to meet my Burnign Man friends.   We’re planning next years projects. We met at Sun Commons, my freind Duanes company . <\/p>\n

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It’s goona be great !<\/p>\n

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ok.. gotta sleep now.. more tomorrow from the road<\/p>\n

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nite all. nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n

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