1st time extraction question , calcium hydroxide?

[Spiralout]

Hi everyone. I have been reading this forum and other forums off and on for years but never posted much that i can rememeber. Anyways,good site.

So i had a question regarding extracting dmt without lye. Lye has become difficult to find and is not an option. Acacia confusa would be the plant in question and it is pulverized into a powder. From the teks I have read you would then add vinegar and boil it for a while (can't remember how long) and then remove the plant material and re-boil with vinegar a few more times. Then you reduce the liquid and add LYE (*can this be replaced with calcium hydroxide or pickling lime?) After basing you then add naptha or another non polar solvent and pull the dmt. You then allow the solvent to sit, remove excess solvent leaving whatever crystals have formed, repeat etc.


My friend understands all this but can the lye be replaced? My friends extent with chemistry is a stb extracting dxm using ammonia (which you can't find without surfacents anymore) and ronsonol lighter fluid.

Any other tips are of course welcome. Thanks!

 

[Entheogenerator]

First off, I would recommend that you use a glass baking dish that has a lid. Put the solvent in the glass baking dish to reduce, then just put the lid on and freeze precipitate. If you reduce your solvent enough, alkaloids will start to drop out and stick to the glass dish, which could cause loss of yield. It is also much easier to retrieve most of your crystals/goo from a flat dish than from a mason jar.

After you do that, read this thread. :thumb_up:

 

[Spiralout]

A flat glass dish is used, no lid and just evaporated. Have had troubles with freezing. Also dont want to use a freezer with food in it. Why would xtals sticking to the glass cause a loss of yield though? I will read that thread.