Ok, so just to clarify the steps

1. create solution of 100 ml of hot water with 10g of sodium carbonate

2. put that solution into EA/mesc citrate powder/possibly excess citric acid solution?

3. If water droplets, dry with potassium carbonate

4. pull ethyl acetate using French press.

5. repeat step 3 with more ethyl acetate

Just wanna make sure step 2 is correct, as that step confused me a little bit.

Just so I can understand the intuition, I'm assuming the sodium carbonate will steal the citric acid from the mescaline citrate, forming sodium citrate, thus causing freebase mescaline to dissolve in EA. Than the freebase mescaline will be able to go go through the coffee filter, while holding the solids back. Is this correct?

Thanks again for your help.