extraction problems (sort of)

[whitebread420]

Hello. I would post this in the a/b section but I'm not allowed to and searching the forums did not give me an answer.

I performed shaggy's jungle tek and yielded about 10 grams of jungle spice. I smoked it and the least i can say is it works great. so i wanted to try and recrystallize a little bit of it with heptane to produce crystals, and the only thing i got was a red oily substance again. i heated both the heptane and the jungle spic in test tubes in a heat bath. i kept everything hot. i washed about 4 times. the brand of heptane i used was bestine rubber cement thinner.

what i got was yellowish crystals to form in solution at first (and i was kinda happy cause it looked like things were going well), but as the solvent evaporated i was left with a red oily substance. any input? should i use naptha next time?

thanks for the help

 

[AlbertKLloyd]

what temp is your heat bath at?

you might try putting your red oil into naptha and doing a cold precip of crystals and then you can evap the rest to reclaim that which did not precipitate

 

[whitebread420]

i would say around 90 degrees ... it wasn't boiling.

 

[Coastal_Shaman]

Hi there, I don't mean to be rude but had you looked at the subforums listings in the welcome area (there are only four of them) you would have seen this sub forum titled "General Extractions Help"... FAQ - All your basic questions and answers - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus
Located one sub forum below the one you posted this thread in.. If you have a look in that sub forum of the welcome area you will find the first "Sticky thread" in it is titled "Official Extractions Help Thread"... Here's a link for that one as well.. official extraction help thread - FAQ - All your basic questions and answers - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus
Lots of great info in that one. ^^^