Dankone said:
right so, this is SWIM's take on the Noman STB tek.
He thinks that first, he could use a quart jar, instead of a half gallon milk jug in fear of chemicals eating the plastic. Is this being too cautious?
Yeah, jar is fine. Noman says to use a jar anyway.
Dankone said:
He puts the 50-80 grams of MHRB into the quart jar. In another quart jar, he slowly mixes about 50-80 grams of lye (too much?) into 750-1170 mL of dH20 (not sure how much). He then adds the two and shakes the jar to mix the chemicals. Then he lets this sit for 1-2 hours. does he need to shake it at all during this time, or can he just leave it to sit?
50-80? You should decide how much you're doing to do. Not quite sure why you're using ranges for values. I recommend 50.
I'm wondering if swiy is following Noman's tek or a different one, since the answer to those questions exist in the tek.
Noman's tek said:
Mix 15ml water and 1g lye per gram of bark in the mixing jar. For example: 50g bark would require 750ml water and 50g lye
You don't need to put the mhrb into a jar; just put it straight into the basic water after measuring 50g.
Shaking it is not necessary but shaking/stirring and heat are the basics of speeding up a chemical reaction. So you can if you want to, but the truth is, you don't even need to let it sit for an hour before you add naphtha, you can pretty much add the naphtha straight after it's absorbed evenly, and then go through the hour with occasional agitation (refer to overview I wrote in a previous reply).
Dankone said:
Next, he is to add about 25-40 grams of heated Naphtha(i heard he should use .4 grams of naptha to 1 gram of mhrb, is that right?). Also should he heat the naphtha to about 200 degrees? What about lye/water solution, should i heat that as well?
Grams? Measure liquid in ml friend
Again, refer to Noman's tek:
Noman's tek said:
Now add 1ml naptha per gram of bark
25-40 grams of Naphtha would be far too much.
About the heat, it doesn't need to by anywhere near that hot, you can just put the naphtha in a jar, then put this jar in a hot water bath until it's hot.
Yes you can also heat the basic solution, however you'll also increase the amount of bark oils/fats that you pull, which while not harmful, will discolor the dmt and is obviously not psychoactive, so you don't really want it.
My friend finds the basic solution is already warm enough after the lye has been added.
Dankone said:
After adding the naphtha, he then rolls the quart jar back and forth slowly and then lets the mixture separate. He is to agitate the mixture 3 times, each time letting the two solutions seperate, and then he pulls the top layer naptha off with a turkey baster after the last agitation. He places the siphoned naptha into a square pyrex pie dish.
Yeah that's right.
Dankone said:
after that, he goes back to the quart jar with the MHRB mix and adds another 25-40 grams more of Naphtha , and perhaps even more water. He repeats the process a few times of agitating the mixes and then pulling out the naptha. He does this maybe two more times adding the extractions to the same pie dish as before..
That's correct, but 50ml naphtha. Don't need to add more water. Also, you'll get a better yield if you use different pyrex dishes for each pull, and they'll also evaporate faster.
Dankone said:
He takes the pie dish and lets this evaporate by a window for a few hours, maybe with a fan blowing near by. After most of the naphtha has evaporated, he places his solution in the pie dish into the freezer with saran wrap to cover it. He is done with that for now
He goes back again to the quart jar of MHRB one more time, but this time lets the naphtha sit with the MHRB for about a day, stirring every now and then for good measure to get any stray DMT.
You only want to evaporate 1/3 of the naphtha really, the naphtha should appear quite white when you need to put it into the freezer.
I'd recommend swirling/shaking rather than stirring, as the basic solution can pull some unwanted material from the metal spoon.
Dankone said:
After about a day in the freezer, he takes his jar of naphtha/crytals and pours it over a coffee filter, saving the naphtha in a jar and harvesting the crystals in the coffee filter. If the crystals look yellow/orange, he is to wash the spice with a water/sodium carbonate solution in the filter. If they look clean, he takes the crystals to dry near a window for 7-8 hours.
Filtering isn't a good idea, you almost always lose some product to the filter.
Instead of filtering it, simply pour the naphtha into another jar, leaving the crystals behind in the first jar.
Dankone said:
He then takes both of his saved naptha mixes, (the one saved from the day before, and the one saved coming from the freezer), combines them and lets them evaporate, repeating the process of harvesting the crystals through freeze precip. He is now done with his Noman tek.
Yeah, you can also evap the left over naphtha after freeze precipitating it, to salvage the last of the dmt.
Hope that helps
