Safety of Naptha

[sharepapa]

Hi,
I've been using a basic STB tek for a while and making some great DMT. Dry, white crystals, usually I only do 1 or 2 pulls as it seems to get more yellow/unpure after this. I have given a good bit to my friends as well...

Lately, I've been getting worried about using naptha in the mix. I came across this post on reddit regarding aromatic hydrocarbons from a (clan) chemist who posts on there regularly.

www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bsizn/iama_request_someone_who_has_successfully

He suggests that naptha or any other hydrocarbon is a bad thing for your health in any dosage. Even with pure DMT crystals, small amounts can be trapped within the crystal even after complete evaporation.

Since it is one of the easiest and most common solvents used, is this worry reasonable?

Thanks for your help

 

[a1pha]

Hi sharepapa,

Naphtha provides an easy means for extraction via STB teks; however, it has negative health implications. Take a look at Jorkest's D-Limonene and Fumaric Acid Approach or another tek using D-limonene.

Best of luck,
-a1pha

 

[soulfood]

If your later pulls are getting yellow, just recrystalise them.

Certainly don't throw away the precious goods!!!

I actually like naphtha extracted DMT, but what I do after I've done all my cleaning steps is dissolve it in IPA (ethanol would be even better) then I evaporate it on a dish so any noticable naphtha trapped in the magic will evaporate also.

This gives the smoothest product in my experience.

 

[gammagore]

If one is worried about the health aspects of dmt extracted with naptha, after they retrive the xtals they could follow the FASA method and then follow step 6 of the BLAB tek

That is sure to get rid of any nasties in the final product.

 

[sharepapa]

Thanks for the tips... For now I'll get some IPA which I can source and do an evaporation with this. I've been using Ronsol lighter fluid and Newport lighter fluid. Both say they are light aliphatic so shouldn't have much aromatic hydrocarbons in them. I've been wanting to try the fumarate so I'll try source the ingredients to do this soon, but it was hard enough to get naptha here. Acetone will probably be even harder. Not sure where to pick up d-lim either. Such a backward country.

So, if I've smoked this say 40 times since Christmas, have I given myself brain damage? (I know this is not really a quantifiable question and I take responsibility for all my actions, but I have given a lot of this away as well to friends which I'm more worried about...)

Again, thanks for the help

 

[Psyren]

Use a smaller amount of NPS and do multiple freeze extractions. Let them dry thoroughly.

Finally, if you want a really fantastic show off product, take your crude product, it will be somewhere between a white orange goo and sea salt in consistency. Add the crude product with good stirring a known volume of the lamp oil over constant heat. It should be hot but not so hot as to be fuming. You are attempting to reach the saturation point of the NPS, which you will know when the DMT stops dissolving. Add a little more NPS and allow the rest of your DMT to dissolve. Add finely separated activated charcoal, and continue stirring for 10 minutes. Filter off the charcoal through a hot funnel into a hot beaker. allow this solution to cool to room temperature, then place in the refrigerator, after this solution is cooled in the fridge, finish preciptating the last of the crystals in the freezer or in a dry ice bath.

This should yield large crystals with a sharp melting point and little impurity or discoloration.

Ive never read this before, what is KOA and NPS? And you can use lamp oil as your solvent?! im confussed what im reading here?

:Edit: Potassium Hydroxide and Non Poler Solvent. but still lamp oil as solvent?