I used the noman's stb tek with modifications, such as using 1.5x amount of water and lye for powdered root bark (which i get from the toad), .5 ml of naphtha per pull, re-x instead of ammonium wash as a purification method. I combine naphtha pulls in a glass dish, use a hot plate and a fan to evaporate that about halfway, then freeze precipitate that out. I re-x if i have a yellow and/or waxy product. I take the filtered naphtha and use the hot plate/fan technique to evaporate the liquid, take the waxy yellow product and re-x as well. I have used pH strips to make sure I have correctly basified the base solution. At the end I am getting around .75% yield, but at least it is white and fluffy and not the crazy yellow stuff I have often seen at fests. I would like to get at least to 1% yield. I checked the BLAB. I am interested, but I have no interest in oral DMT at the moment, so I am a little turned off by having to fb the salt. Do you mostly use this tek for dmt freebase?

I tried making the machine, although issues began because I could not get a hennessy bottle (not legal age), so i improvised with a glass drill and a tobasco bottle. Big issue: steel wool IS NOT what the machine tek's mean! I got the steel wool from a hardware store and the shit burst into flames on me even though I was using it properly. Looking closer I realized that the machine requires these hardcore dishwashing scrubbing things that restaurant dishwashers need, but I could not find anywhere. I plan on getting one off the internet as soon as I can get a hennessy bottle, although it is hard to example to someone older why you need a single serving of hennessy without sounding like a crackhead.

So long story short I used a smaller bubbler with a bit of mint on the bottle, a big ole scoop of dmt (~33-75 mg), and more mint on top. Carefully applied heat, starting taking looongg big hits once i started tasting spice, and when i knew that i was about to be unable to do it again i just hit the pipe and used the lighter like one would trying to smoke as big of herb hit as they can. Shot into a hyperspeed psychedelic tunnel like a rocket guided by an unseen force which kept speeding up the experience while rapidly talking talking to me in english with an alien/insectoid-ish voice. This was an extremely intense moment, like when you are on massive roller coaster and are on the rapid decent. As soon as the thought-moment occurred that I was still in my room on my bed alone I opened my eyes (although I had no memory of closing them) only to seem my room in an array of psychedelic visuals. Gradually I came down from this moment.

I know that if I use the machine properly I will likely have an easier time consuming the vapors, although at the moment mint and spice in a pipe is what I have to work with.

I am glad you like what I said about enlightenment. Its unhealthy to think that psychedelic drugs can provide a better answer then one can get from a walk in the woods, if either could provide one anyway. One experiences some thought or feeling while tripping that is the absolutely greatest euphoria, knows it as enlightenment, but after that person comes down is simply left with a thought and not the feeling of peace they had; it is the feeling of peace and joy that is nirvana and not the thought that led to the feeling.

I remember my friend telling me once while tripping that he figured it out; if one is just totally at peace and happy they have instantly attained the goal of all spiritualities and philosophies without having to know anything. He told me one didn't even have to remember anything because if you come down and forget there was nothing to remember anyway. No joke 5 minutes later I asked him what he called his profound teaching he just gave me, and he looked at me and in all seriousness and a huge smile on his face he told me he had completely forgot our conversation.