My solvent came out dark... and my acid wash failed!

[mercurio]

Hi,

My solvent came out very dark colour.
So, I tried using acidic solution to get it back to normal.
The problem here is that I had a solution with way too many crystals -- long story...

1. The first pull, when I tried to get the DMT into the acidic water, resulted in a orangeish solution with a high ph (I think about 8). I think some lye must have ended up there.

2. The second pull, still trying to get the DMT into the acidic water, came up with... basically no result. All of the DMT seemed to sit happily in the lye, and the water in result was very white (not a good sign). I am working on evaporating this. Once again, the PH is too high -- I don't get it.

3. The third pull seems to have worked. I actually added it to the first pull, and put it to However, there is still tons of spice (at least I think) in the solvent. Also, by the end of the three pulls, I must have done something very wrong because there was a very tiny amount of solvent left to get -- less that when I started from. However, the process went on for a long time, so I assume that a lot of it would have evaporated?

4. I did a fourth pull, on the last little bit of stuff I saw there. Tons of acidic water... and added it to the first pull (which is now on the boil).

So... what would you do here?
My guess is to:

1) Simmer pulls 1, 3 and 4 which are now together, and then try to pull whatever there is to pull

2) Somehow clean pull 3. Should I try a straight pull and see what happens?

Bye,

Mercurio

 

[Ljosalfar]

I'm confused by your descriptions/questions...
Which tek did you use? Extracting MHRB or...? It sounds like you tried to "pull" with acidified water? Mixed this with other solvents? Boiled when? Very confusing. Please review the tek and review your steps... if you are clear about what you did and why, we can help.
L

 

[mercurio]

Sorry... A/B, LexTec. THe solvent that came dark was the first pull after taking the juice to Ph 14!

Does this help?

 

[Ljosalfar]

Have not tried Lextek - IMHO, the "acid wash" step is not required - any oils in the goodies should be cleaned up with re-x. MHRB doesn't need defat IME.
So, what I would do:
Combine any non-polar pulls you have (no water/acid, just the shellite/naphtha) and freeze for 24+ hrs - this should yield great stuff. Decant and use this solvent to keep pulling from the basified bark solution. Pull till there is nothing crashing out.
L

 

[Enoon]

mercurio, have you tried what I suggested in your other thread - what you can do wtih the red naphtha? try it. if it doesn't work you can still try something else.

 

[mercurio]

Hi,

I can't believe I completely missed it... completely!
:-(

Mercurio