I have a dear friend who does not have access to the interenet and is very interested in DMT. he sent me a letter with some questions that i said i would post for him. "I plan to extract DMT using nomans tek, and have laboriousely looked for vmp naptha and bestine, but neither of these appear to be available where i live (unknown location UK). i purchased some Colemans feul after wikipedia told me it was naptha. i placed some of this in a jar and left to evaporate at room temperature, after about a day, i was left with a highly viscous, clear substance, that smelled very similar to bouncy balls. i then attempted to evaporate it with a heat source (radiator) and still it remained. This i presume is a problem as after the freeze precipitation, and pouring off of the naptha, the heat required to remove this strange substance would be so great that it would re absorb much of the DMT, or perhaps destroy it. Originaly i was planning to recrystalise, but with shitty naptha, i think this is out of the question. would an ammonia wash remove this highly viscous solvent residue? without affecting the DMT yield too much? I am not a highly skilled chemist but i had the idea to do a crude, room temperature fractional distillation, to seperate the stuff that will evaporate from that that wont.is this excessive or a good idea? Obviousely the easiest route would be for someone to link me to a source that would sell high quality naptha and/or heptane. thanks for your time! "
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My (friends) silly solvent problems...
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magic clown
aka Slap Stick Sam
Im curious to know what a room temperature fractional distillation proccess of naptha might look like, sounds like your friend is a chemist with far greater skills than anybody on this board. It does sound a little excessive. My friend likes to recrystalize in fresh naptha and ammonia wash. He looses maybe 10% of the product but that ammonia is recirculated into the next extraction phase. Easy.
fourthripley
Rising Star
I've heard very mixed things about coleman fuel both in the UK and elsewhere.If I were your friend I'd go with swan lighter fuel, dear- and you have to be discreet aquiring it in 100ml increments- but evaps clean and works great.Damn solvents are dearer than gin over here :roll:
MagikVenom
Rising Star
If you freeze percip as opposed to evap it wont matter if you got some crap in your solvent because you are removing the spice by filtration or letting it dry stuck to what ever container you are using and discarding the solvent along with the crap. You could distill the colemans to get rid of the crap just be careful and dont blow yourself up. I would experement with a small amount of colemans and see what happens. The colemans in the US may be different for that in the UK. What about lighter fluid? The lighter fule in the US is cleaner than colemans. cheers M.V.
[quote:9f2a65dd9b]If you freeze percip as opposed to evap it wont matter if you got some crap in your solvent because you are removing the spice by filtration or letting it dry stuck to what ever container you are using and discarding the solvent along with the crap. [/quote:9f2a65dd9b] my friend says: "yeah, i was thinking of this, but the thing is i thought that some of the residue left by my solvent would remain on the spice, as it is highly viscous, and it would not evap off... i think i will try with a small amount and report back, thanks a lot for the help ! i might as well give it a shot with this solvent before looking elsewhere."
magic clown
aka Slap Stick Sam
Zippo, Swan, Ronsonol or Coleman? It dosn't really matter they are all pretty much the same.
MagikVenom
Rising Star
"yeah, i was thinking of this, but the thing is i thought that some of the residue left by my solvent would remain on the spice, as it is highly viscous, and it would not evap off... i think i will try with a small amount and report back, thanks a lot for the help ! That does not matter you can wash the crap off your spice with a wash in fresh ice COLD clean solvent. If you re xtal 3 times even with dirty naptha you are still going to get a very pure product. Study the teks then make your plan, get your supplies and remember your first extraction is a learning experance. M.V.