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DMT-Extraction: the evaporation step - how to reduce smell?

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Referring to: Erowid DMT Vaults : Extraction : QT's DMT Extraction Guide

STEP 10 "Final Alkaloid Extraction and Evaporation"
In this step the naphtha layer is saved and placed in an evaporation dish for several weeks. However, naphtha stinks unpleasant and is not healthy to inhale the steam. Thus, placing the dish in the kitchen is not the best idea :)

Is there any other methods to make the stuff evaporate in a less stinky and toxic way?
Is there a way to use a closed dish and place there something inside that would absorb the naphtha steam (just an idea)?
 
What do you mean "Forget you ever read the QT Tek. It's no good."?
Why is it not good? It is one of the best extraction teks I have found in terms of comprehensibility. It is very good explained (STEP 1, STEP 2, ... Pictures, Sketches...) and is best suitable for people who have no clue about the chemical processes happening.

Many teks sounds like "just open the notepad and type hello" (assuming like you are an experienced computer user), while QT sounds like "click on start, go to programs -> accessoires and click on notepad, wait until the white window appears..." - and that is what I like about it.

What tek do you prefer or believe to be the best?
 
live,

Welcome to the Nexus.

As a new member, you may not realize what happened. We are all just human, but you actually had Entropymancer reply to one of your questions. This is a very experienced and extremely knowledgeable member.

There are so many good teks here on the Nexus and so many crappy ones on Erowid, Neurosoup and Google. Check the wiki, check the DMT Handbook. This site is like a hyperspace jewel! Flush those other pieces of garbage like you would old mimosa marc.


But, respect man, you did ask about evaporation, so here you go: Get that dish into a small room that you can close off (including towels under the door), open every window wide. Set up at least one fan in general to push the air out the window. More are better. Put the dish with the naptha directly under a window and place a small fan right over it on the low setting. Your naptha should be completely evaporated within a few hours.

Peace & Love,
Pandora
 
My friend does a variation of that. He likes to be stealthy with his extractions, and he does evap the naphtha down about 2/3 or 3/4 before he freeze precips it. He opens a window just enough to put a space heater in the open space, with the bottom of the window resting on the top of the space heater. Then he closes the curtains around the window, and holds them in place with paperweights so that outside air can't come in. He turns the space heater to "fan only" and sets the thermostat to very high, so that it's essentially a powerful but compact fan with rectangular edges.

He puts the evaporation dish in front of the fan, and voila! The smell is pulled out of the window, and it doesn't float around in the room giving him headaches. The smell DEFINITELY doesn't go outside the room, because the fan puts the room under negative air pressure. This causes air in the hallway outside of his room to flow into the room.

If he didn't have a fan creating negative air pressure, then the room would fill up with naphtha fumes, and the A/C or central heater would put the room under positive air pressure. This would make the naphtha fumes go into the hallway -- pretty awkward on a college campus!
 
Samadhi-Sukha-Upekkha said:
If he didn't have a fan creating negative air pressure, then the room would fill up with naphtha fumes, and the A/C or central heater would put the room under positive air pressure. This would make the naphtha fumes go into the hallway -- pretty awkward on a college campus!
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Geez people, really? I swear, almost every day I hear of at least one person hiding an extraction from their parents or doing extractions in dorms...does this really seem like a good idea to you guys?!?!?? I mean, obviously it does cuz you're all doing it (and you know who you are) but have you actually sat and thought about the potential consequences from your actions? You're putting us all in jeopardy with your actions, I don't want to see the DEA shift priorities to spice extractions due to a string of dorm busts (yes, it's happened) or parents calling the cops about their kids questionable science projects. I know what it's like to be in college, i'll be finishing up next semester. I'm not some 50 year old with a mortgage and 40k chillin in the bank, I don't own a house, but I still waited until I was in "my own" residence before doing extractions. I was in the dorms, I managed to wait til I moved off campus and didn't die from spice separation anxiety. Shit, if you have a friend with a house off campus extract it there. In one weekend you can extract more spice than you would ever consume in a semester. As to people doing it under their parents' roofs without full disclosure, all I can say is wtf!? Please rethink your actions, for your own legal safety, but moreso to protect DMT from overexposure.

peace
SB
 
No off-campus place is available. But don't worry, my friend is wrapping up his involvement with DMT for the present time anyway. Sure, it can definitely be part of the awakening process, but it has too many problems to be an ideal choice at this point. You mentioned some of the more logistical and mundane problems such as the illegality. Psychedelics also don't prepare the mind with the level of concentration and stability to skillfully process things encountered during the awakening process. In a way, psychedelics (especially the stronger ones like DMT) can be like giving a 6 year old a ferrari. Except the risk isn't death and property damage -- it's encountering stuff that you aren't able to handle without causing collateral damage to your life and that of those around you. Sure, many people figure it out as they go along. There's always some element of figuring it out as you go along. But my friend is the type of person who likes to have things figured out and prepared before hand. That applies both to awakening, where the preparation is done in the mind, and to setting up the logistics of an extraction.

An alternative would be buying pre-extracted spice from someone, which my friend has actually had opportunities to do. But he and I don't consider that acceptable in any way. Who knows what's actually in that powder? Perhaps more importantly, who wants to financially support people who think that DMT trips are like funny movies that play in your head? Not interested.

As for endangering you guys on the nexus, I'm not clear on what you're saying. Could you elaborate on that?
 
You could try SWIM's tek. It can be done with naptha, or much easier and less stinky with limonene.

Anyway it is in my signature
 
Thanks q21q21 for SWIY's tek! It works great. For the first time SWIM has extracted pure white DMT and it took only one day! The success feels great after a month of extraction using the QT tek and having extracted virtually nothing. SWIM is looking forward for his first trip!
 
+1 for the q21q21 tek, very fast and efficient according to swim, absolutely perfect for noobs! Many thanks for posting that in the easy to understand manner you did, q21q21. Hey a tek that doesn't use any lye!!?? Why would you bother with anything else?
On evaporation: swim did an extraction in a second floor apartment and evapped on a windowsill with a fan blowing across the top, swim said the smell was quite strong in the room but not anywhere else in the apartment, and he went outside and could smell nothing directly under the window. In swims opinion, people are a bit too paranoid about naptha fumes. Sure you want to avoid inhaling them, but the odour is not that bad and dissapates quickly in open air. Be careful, and cautious, but remember that naptha is not illegal, and has other uses than dmt extraction. "I'm getting ready for a camping trip and I spilt my lamp fuel on the ground!" dorm room extraction sounds downright stupid though, hah.
 
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