Extraction question , please need help !

[cyberdream]

im the final step , i separated the naptha , can i evap it with a fan ? or put it in Freezer?

 

[cero]

1. freezer for 24 hours
2. take out of freezer
3. ????
4. Profit!

 

[BathtubSkyPirate]

You can do both. My preference is to put it in the freezer.

 

[cyberdream]

Btw i left the naptha in the mixing jar for about 1 hour with 3 times stirring , is that enough?

 

[cero]

It should be enough. You can leave the last pull in the jar for much longer to get all the goodies out, but those first pulls are good to go in an hour.

 

[cyberdream]

ok thanks , but this is how it looks like http://imageshack.us/m/707/2586/16052011395.jpg its normal?

 

[ewok]

1. freezer for 24 hours
2. take out of freezer
3. ????
4. Profit!

Profit??

 

[Enoon]

looks normal cyberdream.
Personally I like keeping my naphtha in the mixing jar for a lot longer than 1 hour, but maybe that's cause I don't like to hasten things. I usually do 12-24 hour pulls, shaking/rolling my jar whenever I pass. Not sure if stirring will do. Now it looks like you have quite a large volume of naphtha so it could be that it is not saturated enough to freeze precipitate anything. If after 24 hours in the freezer you get nothing you can do a few things:

1) evaporate some of it and freeze again (usually ppl wait till the naphtha starts clouding when you blow over it - that's when you know it's super saturated)
2) evaporate all of it
3) split it up and try to pull with each half again this time for longer and with more agitation to get it saturated enough.

hopefully though you won't have this problem.

anyway, good luck.

@ ewok - I'm sure he meant spiritual profit

 

[ewok]

With the ???? as step 3 I wasn't so sure. Took it as sell then profit. But I hope its innocent.

 

[Enoon]

nah there's a step missing - something like

3. decant naphtha, put jar upside down, dry crystals...
3.5 vaporize
4. [spiritual] profit

 

[ewok]

nah there's a step missing - something like

3. decant naphtha, put jar upside down, dry crystals...
3.5 vaporize
4. [spiritual] profit

Sounds much better that way. I'm all for profit then.

 

[cero]

The ??? en profit! was a joke. I might be spending too much time on the internet, lol.

 

[crystalizer]

Yep, i agree with the try of freezing but disagree with the 24h rule. When someone did his last extraction, he did a lot of pulls with different sdolvents (by the way, n-hexane gives the pure white crystalls, never tried heptane ). He placed them in the freezer (-20°C) and after 24h there were only very tiny chrystalls, not worth to harvest them. So he placed them back into the freezer for ... mh lets say a week, and tadaa... even with large excess of solvent, chrystalls, which are really heavy in terms of weight formed. The more solvent is there, the longer the precitipation takes, but the purer the product... as impurities will usually remain in the solvent....

Wait for couple of days and you will see chrystall formation (most likely)...
And if not, yeah you can evap off some solvent. The guy I know uses cold airflof, works great, works that good that when he evaps completely, and adds a little warm n-hexane ... the chrystalls even percitipate at room temperature.

And one last thing... I think that soaks with solvent for more than 1 h are more then enough. The solubility of DMT in the used solvent isn't that great, so that basically after 5-10 minutes of stirring (yeah, the guy i knopw uses a magnetic stirrer) saturates the solvent... A littel temperature in this step helps even more, when you melt your product the solvents even better soak out the DMT

enjoy!

 

[Skeet]

The ??? en profit! was a joke. I might be spending too much time on the internet, lol.

I got it man, and laughed hard.