celestial.body1234
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I've never been a forum participant before, and I am new to making DMT. Actually, I have yet to make a batch successfully. Can you point me in the direction that I can find how to extract using heptane? Please.
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Welcome. I might not be one to talk about successful extraction. But I can tell you, there is lot of TEKs and here on Nexus, read up a bit and then try to be more specific with your questions, there are many great people here which will gladly help you.
read up on wiki:
wiki.dmt-nexus.me
look into extraction...
Best wishes
read up on wiki:
DMT-Nexus Wiki
look into extraction...
Best wishes
Yep, we literally have an entire forum dedicated to your question. Have a good dip into things here and you'll surely find what you're looking for. We're more than happy to answer any further, more specific questions that may arise for you.
And welcome to the Nexus!
And welcome to the Nexus!
celestial.body1234
Rising Star
I remember reading (in my early studies) that you must double boil the plant matter, base, and heptane solution for it to transfer out of the base. Specifically when using heptane for the extracting solution... But I can't seem to find instructions on how to do that again. I keep getting lost in the forum 
Here we go:
How about:
forum.dmt-nexus.me
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Boiling is only part of the acid phase of an A/B extraction. Don't boil the base, and definitely don't boil the heptane!
What materials do you have so far? Any information will help us point you in the right direction, the more detail the better.
Cybs Hybrid ATB 'Salt' Tek...Designed for newbies.
Greetings fellow wanderers of the mind. I wanted to post up a detailed pictorial Tek for newcomers to extraction. There seems to be a lot of confusion following Teks so I have devised an easy to follow guide. (I have intentionally omitted all the why's and wherefore's of the chemical processes...
forum.dmt-nexus.me
Boiling is only part of the acid phase of an A/B extraction. Don't boil the base, and definitely don't boil the heptane!
What materials do you have so far? Any information will help us point you in the right direction, the more detail the better.
celestial.body1234
Rising Star
Alright, so far I have added water to the bark. Froze it, thawed it, slow cooked it for 8 hours. then froze it, put it in the blender, then the slow cooker again for 8 hours. Then I froze it and slow cooked it. Now it's cooled off. Waiting for me to add the lye but I got hung up on the fact that I wasn't sure how I was going to do it all. I'm not sure if it's important that it stays above a certain temperature for the extraction to work... And so far I have not successfully extracted any DMT after trying to for two batches, due to the materials I was using... Household lye and Crown camping fuel... It came out oily. I tried it, to see if it was worth cleaning up, but it didn't do anything. So I got better stuff. I've attached a photo so you can see for yourself. I don't know which heptane is better? In the photo the better stuff (left), and what I started with (right). I'm sorry that it took me so long to reply.. and thank you so very much for helping me.Here we go:
How about:
?Cybs Hybrid ATB 'Salt' Tek...Designed for newbies.
Greetings fellow wanderers of the mind. I wanted to post up a detailed pictorial Tek for newcomers to extraction. There seems to be a lot of confusion following Teks so I have devised an easy to follow guide. (I have intentionally omitted all the why's and wherefore's of the chemical processes...
Boiling is only part of the acid phase of an A/B extraction. Don't boil the base, and definitely don't boil the heptane!
What materials do you have so far? Any information will help us point you in the right direction, the more detail the better.
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celestial.body1234
Rising Star
I can't seem to get Naptha sent to me in California. I have two orders currently in transit, but not going to arrive till December 5th. Anyways, thank you everyone for the resources. I'll do my best with what I've got. Any additional information anyone thinks will help me in my situation is appreciated, and will be read by me, a couple times over most likely ...Happy Turkey day!
Ah yes, getting naphtha and a whole lot of other hydrocarbon solvents is next to impossible in California! I've heard of people (@Pandora 
) driving out of state to get it. Did you do an evaporation test on the camping fuel before using it? Sometimes they have additives and/or less-volatile components which possibly would explain that oily result. Another possibility is that it was the bark - but how did you collect the product? Evaporation of the naphtha, besides being wasteful, also has strong tendency to give oily product. Freeze precipitation generally gives far better results.
Also, a negative bioassay could be down to faulty vaping technique or insufficient dose size. It's unnortunate that you threw that sample away, but I guess there's no point in dwelling on it now!
The materials you have as shown in the photo look as though you're all good to go with the extraction as it is, right now. There's no need to wait for the other naphtha - heptane will do the job just fine (just don't evaporate it, it's too expensive!) The camp fuel may need distilling before you should use it - if it leaves an oily smear after evaporating a generous few drops of it on an absolutely clean mirror, don't use it as-is.
The pertinent question is, how much bark do you have brewed up at the moment? If you've only a small amount of heptane you can split up a large batch into multiple smaller ones. Go for 50 - 100g equivalents*, add base to a smaller portion, pull with the heptane, freeze precipitate and repeat. The heptane can be reused after each freeze precipitation.
*Say you have 250g bark in 2L (half a gallon) of water, just split it into three or four equal portions and process each one individually. This allows you to get more extraction mileage, more conveniently, from a smaller amount of solvent. Also, you won't have to handle a larger amount of basic sludge, or have it sitting around, if you only add base to the smaller portion precisely when needed.
) driving out of state to get it. Did you do an evaporation test on the camping fuel before using it? Sometimes they have additives and/or less-volatile components which possibly would explain that oily result. Another possibility is that it was the bark - but how did you collect the product? Evaporation of the naphtha, besides being wasteful, also has strong tendency to give oily product. Freeze precipitation generally gives far better results.Also, a negative bioassay could be down to faulty vaping technique or insufficient dose size. It's unnortunate that you threw that sample away, but I guess there's no point in dwelling on it now!
The materials you have as shown in the photo look as though you're all good to go with the extraction as it is, right now. There's no need to wait for the other naphtha - heptane will do the job just fine (just don't evaporate it, it's too expensive!) The camp fuel may need distilling before you should use it - if it leaves an oily smear after evaporating a generous few drops of it on an absolutely clean mirror, don't use it as-is.
The pertinent question is, how much bark do you have brewed up at the moment? If you've only a small amount of heptane you can split up a large batch into multiple smaller ones. Go for 50 - 100g equivalents*, add base to a smaller portion, pull with the heptane, freeze precipitate and repeat. The heptane can be reused after each freeze precipitation.
*Say you have 250g bark in 2L (half a gallon) of water, just split it into three or four equal portions and process each one individually. This allows you to get more extraction mileage, more conveniently, from a smaller amount of solvent. Also, you won't have to handle a larger amount of basic sludge, or have it sitting around, if you only add base to the smaller portion precisely when needed.
How's the extraction going? You should have got something out of it by now!
