downwardsfromzero said:Heavy distillates like [Bartoline] white spirit do do a good job of pulling and - if they are free from aromatics ('benzenes') they freeze precipitate well too.
The problem is, being heavier distillates, they are likely to leave a non-volatile residue which is best cleaned up by recrystallisation from a different, lighter, clean-evaporating solvent, or by a mini-A/B - again using a clean-evaporating solvent.
My first ever extraction used BBQ lighting fluid and the yield was way beyond satisfactory, followed up with a re-x from heptane.
Metta-Morpheus said:What exactly is bartoline? All I found is a brand name bartoline, which has many different solvents in their product line. I’m assuming it was the white spirit?
downwardsfromzero said:OK, glad to hear of your positive results but there's nothing especially ground breaking about this method. White spirit is just another petroleum distillate and could equally be called medium naphtha. My experience shows that medium hydrotreated aliphatic petroleum distillates do indeed do a good job of extracting DMT, and it's useful to know that you've found something that evaporates cleanly.
All things considered, I still think that this thread belongs in the Welcome Area rather than the Collaborative Research Project area of the forum. Hence its appearance in the Welcome Discussion subforum.
_Trip_ said:Magicmike, it's good that you have found a process that works for you.
Bartoline has been used and talked about on nexus for a number of years, feel free to use the search function to read up on previous posts. It appears to be just a brand name for naphtha. As DFZ has pointed out it is a standard solvent and naphtha is used in a lot of DMT Teks.
Your right at the core your Tek is just a standard A/B, using standard methods and commonly used consumables that have had a well established use in DMT extraction Teks.
I have no doubt however, the variations you have experimented with indeed may produce higher yields.
So thank you for reporting it.
Magicmike said:Thankyou for informing me , there's always someone's who's thought of a good idea first lmfao, I have had a look and found a few mentions of using bartoline , would you agree that there is more of a difference between wibtek and the usual a/b teks(cybs salt ect ). then there is between cybs max ion and salt tek and fennec . what I'm basically getting at is, if fennec tek is a tek in its own right and worthy of its own right up , isn't mine too ?
This kind of implies that you were feeling inflated by "your" tek (ever heard the phrase, standing on the shoulders of giants"?) You might want to be cautious about this kind of emotional attachment.Magicmike said:Ngl I'm feeling quite deflated , everyone who's used wibtek has loved it, and have given up on mainstream teks , I'm not sure im gonna convince anyone here to try so il stick to secret fb groups , thanks for your time
Magicmike said:Ngl I'm feeling quite deflated , everyone who's used wibtek has loved it, and have given up on mainstream teks , I'm not sure im gonna convince anyone here to try so il stick to secret fb groups , thanks for your time