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Veggie oil tek help/q21q21
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What type of filter set up do you have? Patience typically will pay dividends since those fine particulates won't filter easily. Decanting away from as much sediment as possible will allow you to get the bulk of the solution through without clogging or overly-fine particles passing through a coarser filter.
To maximise yield, the remaining sediment can be rinsed with more IPA and filtered separately in case of difficulties.
Afkolemonos
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I use coffee filters. I already did the evaporation of the IPA. I must have fine particulates in it. There is white sediment in the goo. I will dissolve the goo with some IPA and filter them out this time.
You can try also cotton stuffed in the neck of a funnel, that should work better for fine particles. But in any case like Transform described, let it settle and decant, clogged filters are annoying.
Afkolemonos
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I ended up with the goo you see in the picture. Later on i might try some to check if there is anything in it.
To the not so clean naphtha chapter now. I post it here and i hope any one who has same issues can try the same. After following the advices of others. I took my lighter fluid and put it in a jar with a distilled water and vinegar solution. Not exact measurements were taken. After 24 hours and making about 3-4 shakes in these hours and letting separate now the vap test comes out completely clean. I also cleaned the glass at which a make the test with soap and then distilled water in order to remove everything. Now to my surprise its crystal clean. I dont know if the issue was the lighter fluid or the glass. But now i have for sure some ready to use naphtha and will also try the lye naphtha tek. Will keep updating.
To the not so clean naphtha chapter now. I post it here and i hope any one who has same issues can try the same. After following the advices of others. I took my lighter fluid and put it in a jar with a distilled water and vinegar solution. Not exact measurements were taken. After 24 hours and making about 3-4 shakes in these hours and letting separate now the vap test comes out completely clean. I also cleaned the glass at which a make the test with soap and then distilled water in order to remove everything. Now to my surprise its crystal clean. I dont know if the issue was the lighter fluid or the glass. But now i have for sure some ready to use naphtha and will also try the lye naphtha tek. Will keep updating.
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Afkolemonos
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ok. The veggie tek worked. it is spice for sure. but i think too much hastle but in the situationn you dont have other options it can be done. Now that i am with some freebase goo, how do i store it ?
That's very nice!
Now that your naphtha evaps cleanly. You can try cleaning up the goo, either by re-x or mini AB. Maybe you'll get xtals or a less dark goo
Now that your naphtha evaps cleanly. You can try cleaning up the goo, either by re-x or mini AB. Maybe you'll get xtals or a less dark goo
Practically invisible residues of grease or detergent can indeed lead to false positives on an evap test, although it could equally be the case that your vinegar wash was also successful.
Congratulations on pulling off the fiddly veg oil tek, and have fun experimenting with cleaning up your goo! I'd say, mini A/B and followed by freeze precipitation from naphtha.
Afkolemonos
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Hey guys. I searched the nexus. Couldn't find where to post this. Anw, ATB extraction and due work in the week the first pull had the naphtha in the lye solution for about 6 days. After separation i got this in the picture, a cloudy naphtha. I put it in water maybe to remove impurities. Unfortunately i read that with this method spice gets washed out? Anw i didn't leave it in there too long neither to much agitation. Why it got cloudy?
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You can prevent that by using a pinch of sodium carbonate in the wash water.
Looks like the naphtha may have cooled down and started to precipitate something. Some will have evaporated too. This could be considered a good sign. You used a huge amount of water for the wash. You can add a dash (i.e. small/tiny amount) of base to it in case any DMT has dissolved in it. Don't drop solids through the naphtha, use a concentrated solution.
I would also give it a warm water bath, the naphtha might clear up and it will make it easier for any dmt lost to the water to migrate back to the naphtha
Afkolemonos
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So ended up with around 700 mg spice. I also have the 3rd pull evaporating because it will not precipitate. It just got cloudy in the freezer. Now i would like when i finish with the 3rd one to put everything together and make mini a/b to wash everything up. I searched the nexus but i wasn't able to find anywhere mentioning quantities about mini a/b. Can you advice or attach a link about quantities of vinegar/water/lye/naphtha for the process. I want to loose as little as possible of the spice after washing.