Hello everyone. I wanted to share with you all my experience using a sonicator to extract DMT from MHRB. It was very simple. A lot easier than any typical A/B or STB extraction. It took 4.5 hours from start to completely cleaned up and solvent in the freezer.
Supplies:
- 100g MHRB
- Distilled water
- 5% distilled vinegar
- Sodium hydroxide
- Naptha
- Vacuum filtration apparatus (buchner funnel, hand pump, flask w/side arm)
- 375 watt sonicator with 3/4" horn
- Various sized beakers
- Separatory funnel
- Stand with circular attachment and clamp attachment
Sonication:
I started out by mixing 450ml of distilled water with 50ml of distilled vinegar in a thick, 1 liter, pyrex beaker. Mix 100g MHRB into the water/vinegar and stir until all of the RB is wet. Tune the sonicator and then set it up with your stand to have the tip into the solution. This is the fun part. Sonicate on highest setting for 10 minutes.
It was pretty cool to watch the solution freaking out. It looked like there were bubbles of a fatty substance floating around in it or something. Maybe it was just air bubbles with lots of water vapor in them.
Filtering/washing:
Vacuum filter the solution. Save the solution in a separate container. Wash with another 200ml of distilled water. I stirred it around in there for about 15 minutes to soak up any remaining dmt. Vacuum filter that solution then mix the other solution.
Basification:
Make a concentrated solution of distilled water and sodium hydroxide. I just mixed several spoonfuls into the distilled water and stirred till it was dissolved. I then poured that into the filtered MHRB tea until it reached a PH of 13.5-14.
Pulls:
Now I only have a 500 ml separatory funnel. So I separated the now about 700ml basified solution into two 500ml flasks rather than reducing (to save more time and avoid vinegar smell in my house.) Then I set up a water bath with heat on lowest possible setting, filled a 50ml volumetric flask with 10ml of naptha, and let it sit to warm up in the bath. I poured the naptha into the first flask of basified tea, put another 10ml of naptha into the heat bath, swirled the tea in the flask around with the rubber stopper on, let it sit for 10 minutes. I then set up my separatory funnel and poured the solution in there. As I let that separate I started the pull on the other half of the solution. As I let the other half of the solution sit I separated the tea from the naptha in the sep funnel. So it was a continuous string of separating and pulling all at the same time since there were two batches to pull from. I did 3 pulls with 10ml naptha on each half of tea. The final pull I used 30ml of naptha for each half of tea.
Freeze precip/clean up:
I then put the naptha into a flat pyrex baking dish and put tin foil over the top and set it in my freezer. Then it was time for clean up. I started this extraction at 2pm and finished cleaning up at 6:30pm. I let the naptha sit in the freezer until the next morning. I woke up to an awesome sight!! 1.25g of beautiful, fluffly, white spice.
This is definitely the easiest, best extraction method I've ever done. Very easy, quick, minimal scents and very little clean up. Nothing compared to doing several hour long boils with tons of solution to mess with. Here's a picture of the final product.
Supplies:
- 100g MHRB
- Distilled water
- 5% distilled vinegar
- Sodium hydroxide
- Naptha
- Vacuum filtration apparatus (buchner funnel, hand pump, flask w/side arm)
- 375 watt sonicator with 3/4" horn
- Various sized beakers
- Separatory funnel
- Stand with circular attachment and clamp attachment
Sonication:
I started out by mixing 450ml of distilled water with 50ml of distilled vinegar in a thick, 1 liter, pyrex beaker. Mix 100g MHRB into the water/vinegar and stir until all of the RB is wet. Tune the sonicator and then set it up with your stand to have the tip into the solution. This is the fun part. Sonicate on highest setting for 10 minutes.
It was pretty cool to watch the solution freaking out. It looked like there were bubbles of a fatty substance floating around in it or something. Maybe it was just air bubbles with lots of water vapor in them.
Filtering/washing:
Vacuum filter the solution. Save the solution in a separate container. Wash with another 200ml of distilled water. I stirred it around in there for about 15 minutes to soak up any remaining dmt. Vacuum filter that solution then mix the other solution.
Basification:
Make a concentrated solution of distilled water and sodium hydroxide. I just mixed several spoonfuls into the distilled water and stirred till it was dissolved. I then poured that into the filtered MHRB tea until it reached a PH of 13.5-14.
Pulls:
Now I only have a 500 ml separatory funnel. So I separated the now about 700ml basified solution into two 500ml flasks rather than reducing (to save more time and avoid vinegar smell in my house.) Then I set up a water bath with heat on lowest possible setting, filled a 50ml volumetric flask with 10ml of naptha, and let it sit to warm up in the bath. I poured the naptha into the first flask of basified tea, put another 10ml of naptha into the heat bath, swirled the tea in the flask around with the rubber stopper on, let it sit for 10 minutes. I then set up my separatory funnel and poured the solution in there. As I let that separate I started the pull on the other half of the solution. As I let the other half of the solution sit I separated the tea from the naptha in the sep funnel. So it was a continuous string of separating and pulling all at the same time since there were two batches to pull from. I did 3 pulls with 10ml naptha on each half of tea. The final pull I used 30ml of naptha for each half of tea.
Freeze precip/clean up:
I then put the naptha into a flat pyrex baking dish and put tin foil over the top and set it in my freezer. Then it was time for clean up. I started this extraction at 2pm and finished cleaning up at 6:30pm. I let the naptha sit in the freezer until the next morning. I woke up to an awesome sight!! 1.25g of beautiful, fluffly, white spice.
This is definitely the easiest, best extraction method I've ever done. Very easy, quick, minimal scents and very little clean up. Nothing compared to doing several hour long boils with tons of solution to mess with. Here's a picture of the final product.
