This solvent doesn't work?

[TheRawringDinosaur]

I used Kingfords Charcoal Lighter and it turned my extraction into muck. After the freeze it looked like regular dmt (just a lot less) but as soon as I let it sit it seems to melt, and there's a sticky residue on the bottom of the pyrex tray ):/

Is there anyway to salvage this batch? Or else I'm just going to start another one using the solvent that worked last time.

Thanks

 

[The Traveler]

There is nothing wrong with some waxy goo left over after a freezeprecip/evap.

The thing is that the solvent is in someway mixed with the DMT that is is hard for the solvent to evaporate. The best thing to help the solvent to get evaporated is put the goo in a pyrex dish, then move it around with a razor blade so you get long thin streaks of the goo. It is preferable to do this with a fan blowing over the pyrex dish.

Sometimes you will see the goo solidify right before your eyes, and sometimes it takes a little bit more of moving the goo around every once in a while (lets say do this every half hour). In the end it will solidify, just try it!


Kind regards,

The Traveler

 

[TheRawringDinosaur]

It's like super saturated lighter fluid and smells like it too. It's really dark yellow and it's not powdery white crystals like before, it's like brittle snowflakes.

 

[Eliyahu]

If it still smells at all like lighter fluid it is not safe to smoke...

Also-
]Did you put the lighter fluid on a cd bottom to see if it left residue after evap before your extraction???

 

[TheRawringDinosaur]

Nope

 

[The Traveler]

]Did you put the lighter fluid on a cd bottom to see if it left residue after evap before your extraction???

I would use a glass pyrex dish for this. There are many solvents that will eat through the plastic of a CD.


Kind regards,

The Traveler

 

[fourthripley]

I ran some experiments with BBQ fluid years ago. Although rather clean and selective (white sparklies were observed on freeze precip) the chances of evapping residual solvent are virtually nill. BBQ fluid is odourless kerosene and has a very high vapour/boiling point, rendering it useless for our purposes

 

[TheRawringDinosaur]

Ok so I'll toss this batch. But there's not a way I can save the stuff I just got?

 

[tony]

Don't toss anything. There's always a way to salvage it, there may not even be anything wrong with it. have you done as the traveler suggested? A couple of times my spice had a tinge of xylene to it, so I put it in a bowl and then floated the bowl in some warm water to melt the spice, this seemed to also help the solvent evap out of it. That and chopping it up as trav said.

I don't want to try telling you how to salvage it (if indeed it needs salvaged at all) since I am not experienced with this particular problem, assuming the problem is you have used some kind of contaminated solvent. I had a quick look at the MSDS sheet for the solvent you used and it just says aliphatic petroleum solvent - concentration 100%, that sounds fine to me but I could be missing something. Someone with a bit more expertise will probably sort you out

 

[fourthripley]

Disolve your gunk in regular lighter fluid. Extract x3 with acidic water, basify the water and rextract.

 

[TheRawringDinosaur]

How do you do that Acidic / basify water?

National Center for Forensic Science is what I used.

I have a bowl of Mimosa that looks like pudding now. After you do a pull do you have to add more base to get it back to the right consistency? or more water?