you can retrieve most of your dlimo, dont ruin it with some DANGEROUS NPS (xylene), you wouldnt ingest smalls amounts of xylene alone so why potentially do it with alkaloids. furthermore, get more dlimo, if you use it right, a gallon lasts you well over a year...
the trick is to barely hydrate the cactus powder AFTER making a homogenous mixture of cacti and bass (lye/hydrated lime) when this is done it makes a bass paste that is the consistency of soggy oatmeal and easily separates by falling into clumps to the bottom of your extraction vessel. simply mix the bass paste into the dlimo and let sit, pour of 4/5ths, add 4/5ths fresh limo and repeat, after 5 or so pulls (15 min each, mixing the first 10), combine all pulls and let sit for the night, decant/carefully pour off the top 4/5ths again to insure that you have no aqueous contamination (bass paste/ bass water) this way when you salt you are more likely to end up with nice amber orange waxy acetate, by not letting it settle the product tends to be supremely inferior, take your time on that part
ive also read that the bassified cacti tends to keep breaking down making pulls catch not just alkaloids but other non goodies that contaminate your product (unless you clean properly) typically im done pulling at 2 hours, however ive pulled for 2 days and not found an increase in yield, just more a reason to use a cleaning step
to filter the dlimo
plug a glass turkey baster with cotton balls, and fill it up, blow the solution through the filter (dlimo is safe enough to potentially get some on your lips, admittedly it tingles a bit but most often you dont get it on you)
this works really well
if youre trying to filter the salt and remove the particles use a paper towel, it will absorb the trace amounts of dlimo while letting the salt solution pass. wash the paper towel with clean salt solution to get the rest out
keep on trying, once you succeed youll see that your struggles only make you more grateful
