hey merkin,

thanks for trying the tek, I'm happy you got good results with less effort. I am trying to think of a way to make the squeezing easier and less messy, hopefully i come up with something soon.

one pass base - acid - base is good enough as long as you did the water washes at the end. 10% is higher than what is typically reported with rue seeds so regarding dosing I would would take the equivalent of 3-4g seeds for a full experience but start with a lower dose in case your seeds were unusually high yielding.

the percentage of harmine and harmaline would depend on the alkaloid profile of your seeds. I tried the crude separation method the other day and got around 50/50.

In principle you should only lose 5% of the alkaloids with manske, which you can still recover. both harmine and harmaline will crash with manske. but your 10% yield will probably drop to about 5-6%. use only 15g/100ml salt and not as I mention in the tek. this will minimize the salt contamination.

good luck