STB too "sludgy"

[CatholicPsychonaut]

Greetings! I am so excited to finally be REALLY DOING THIS!!! However, I am hitting a snag, and wondering what the best way to continue might be.

I'm doing the "DMT for the Masses" STB extraction with a 1g MHRB : 15ml water : 1g Lye ratio. the problem I encountered on my first try was that the water/rb poweder was WWWWAAAAYYY to sludgy and wouldn't go through the stopcock on my separatory funnel. Soooo, if I double the water and Lye to rootbark ratio, I'll probably help this problem... However, I'll end up with more water than my separatory funnel can handle, and I'm back to the problem of what to do with the funnel... If it even solves the problem.... So, my question is this, can I filter out the plant materials before I ad the NPS, or does the NPS need to come into contact with the plant materials?

Thanks for the help.

 

[Noman]

I've never understood why everyone thinks that you can't use a sep funnel with an STB.
Dump everything through a strainer, use the funnel to separate the aqueous from the NP, add the aqueous back to the bark.
It's not really that tough, a lot easier than bullshitting around with a turkey baster and syringe.

 

[swam rollbre]

result...

Some is very shiny white. Some a greenish-yellowish (booger color). Booger stuff seems a bit wetter, and stickier. Seems to be improving somewhat as it dries out more and more. What do you folks think of my first try?

could have been a lot worse....

https://mycotopia.net/forums/botanicals/46533-spice-extraction-w-pics.html

swim's looking for a way to clean coleman fuel before using it in any way.

 

[lewinii]

you could use certain lighter fluids as they are mostly naphtha.. i use ronsonol

just looked at that link you posted, that is by far the worst dmt freebase i have ever seen

 

[damon]

I've never understood why everyone thinks that you can't use a sep funnel with an STB.
Dump everything through a strainer, use the funnel to separate the aqueous from the NP, add the aqueous back to the bark.
It's not really that tough, a lot easier than bullshitting around with a turkey baster and syringe.

It's not that you can't, it's that it's messy. The aqueous sticks to the glass, not as bad with A/B, but the STB sludge can be thick to where you can't even see the separation. I agree though that basters and syringes are horrible for NP, but a proper glass pipette and 3-way bulb can pull it off the top no problem. After pipetting, it can then be put into a sep funnel or graduated cylinder to get a better separation. Another reason is because I don't like working with a high pH sticky sludge, moving it between containers, accidents happen. Once it's in the container it stays there until it goes down the drain.