RottenMushroom
Rising Star
Hello,
I am very glad I could join the community, and I wanted to thank all the people contributing to it.
My story is not too complicated, yet I think it is quite unusual due to the fact psychedelics have been in my life since childhood- I didn't try any before I was about 17 though(still young and stupid).
It all started with my brother. He was listening to this weird techno-like music, psytrance. So when I was about 7-8 I knew it was about drugs. Then when I was 13 I investigated that matter a bit and I fall in love with psytrance and learning about drugs. Years were passing, and I was learning a lot about drugs and science. I knew the possible outcomes of using drugs- positive and negative. I smoked my first joint at the age of 17. A few years later I was exploring many different drugs, yet never got dependent on even one. My psychedelic story started with 25C-NBOMe... not a glorious start... But I spent hours for research before I took it. Since then I tried a few other psychedelics and all I can say is: they changed me, for better. Now I'm in love with DMT. I tried it just few times and never got full breakthrough, but I think it was worth it.
Cut to the chase:
I've been reading the DMT-Nexus forum for quite some time and I always had been finding answers to my questions, up until now.
SWIM wants to do an extraction of DMT from MHRB using A/B tech. He's a bit of a chemist, but not a real one. The thing is he can't find pure naptha anywhere around. All he finds is impure lighter fluid which leaves residue after evaporation. Last time he did the extraction he had to do a lot more work to get the crystals pure, and they still weren't perfect.
So he thought about distilling that lighter fluid, to purify it, like chemists do with their solvents. He read that flash point of naptha is about 4*C which is very low and therefore he thinks that bringing it to a boil can be dangerous. That's why he's got an idea of distilling it using an oil bath (not to bring the flask to higher temperature than needed), a fractionating column and a condenser and a vacuum pump to get rid of oxygen from the system as well as lowering the boiling point. The system with less oxygen is less likely to ignite, so it would be safer. The vacuum he can get of his pump is about -25 inHg which is not much, but would make a big difference. He never read about doing this, so he's not sure if it's safe. And the last thing he wants it half a liter of boiling naphta exploding inside a flask and burning the house down.
Note: he checked how to put naptha fire down, and found out it's not so easy... so quantity of about half a liter would make a lot a damage.
TL;DR: Can you distill lighter fluid?
Thank you
Regards
I am very glad I could join the community, and I wanted to thank all the people contributing to it.
My story is not too complicated, yet I think it is quite unusual due to the fact psychedelics have been in my life since childhood- I didn't try any before I was about 17 though(still young and stupid).
It all started with my brother. He was listening to this weird techno-like music, psytrance. So when I was about 7-8 I knew it was about drugs. Then when I was 13 I investigated that matter a bit and I fall in love with psytrance and learning about drugs. Years were passing, and I was learning a lot about drugs and science. I knew the possible outcomes of using drugs- positive and negative. I smoked my first joint at the age of 17. A few years later I was exploring many different drugs, yet never got dependent on even one. My psychedelic story started with 25C-NBOMe... not a glorious start... But I spent hours for research before I took it. Since then I tried a few other psychedelics and all I can say is: they changed me, for better. Now I'm in love with DMT. I tried it just few times and never got full breakthrough, but I think it was worth it.
Cut to the chase:
I've been reading the DMT-Nexus forum for quite some time and I always had been finding answers to my questions, up until now.
SWIM wants to do an extraction of DMT from MHRB using A/B tech. He's a bit of a chemist, but not a real one. The thing is he can't find pure naptha anywhere around. All he finds is impure lighter fluid which leaves residue after evaporation. Last time he did the extraction he had to do a lot more work to get the crystals pure, and they still weren't perfect.
So he thought about distilling that lighter fluid, to purify it, like chemists do with their solvents. He read that flash point of naptha is about 4*C which is very low and therefore he thinks that bringing it to a boil can be dangerous. That's why he's got an idea of distilling it using an oil bath (not to bring the flask to higher temperature than needed), a fractionating column and a condenser and a vacuum pump to get rid of oxygen from the system as well as lowering the boiling point. The system with less oxygen is less likely to ignite, so it would be safer. The vacuum he can get of his pump is about -25 inHg which is not much, but would make a big difference. He never read about doing this, so he's not sure if it's safe. And the last thing he wants it half a liter of boiling naphta exploding inside a flask and burning the house down.
Note: he checked how to put naptha fire down, and found out it's not so easy... so quantity of about half a liter would make a lot a damage.
TL;DR: Can you distill lighter fluid?
Thank you
Regards
So things like basic distillation are trivial to him. He knows the difference between flash point and ignition point as well as what bumping is. He got some experience with distilling ethanol for more specified uses- absolute ethanol (~100%). And he's got some equipment needed to do that. He can obtain some chloroform or ether if needed. He just never distilled as volatile solvent as naptha or chloroform/ether and thus he's not sure about safety of it.
So now he has a flask with highly contaminated lighter fluid, which leaves even more reside than before. He wants to try doing this again, this time without any grease. But if there is no grease he won't be able to apply vacuum, and there is a risk of joints getting frozen.
