Swim did clean up for harmala full alkaloid mixture with manske extraction and last time swim did put 5.3g of harmalas and dissolved them in 40ml hot vinegar, it went all in with no problems, then measured 4g of salt and when all that salt was dissolved to the vinegar first thing swim sees is theas whiteish 'sticks' forming to the wall's of the little jar, clearly they are crystals forming there, 30min later in room temp, that jar was still warm and inside there was one solid block of harmala HCL, no excess vinegar left, it's softish, but not gooey. Just wanted to 'report' this funny thing up here.

Btw, that block of harmala HCL must be really really contaminated with salts, unless they are transformed for something else in that process, but somehow swim thinks it does not. So question is, is there any way of cleaning that salt from them or should swim just dissolve them back to bigger amount of vinegar and let them form in bigger amount of liquids like before, but then just freebase them and clean that manske out by turning it to FB. Swim does not know if there is really way of making clean harmala HCL with this process so maybe better option would be FB form..

Or as a alternative would there be other ratio with salt/liquid to get more clean HCL? Swim is using that 10g/100ml..

I know this is an old thread but I am wondering if anyone has an answer for this. I seem to be having the exact same problem. I performed the manske twice with nice crystals forming each time but on my third manske, which ironically was going to be my last, had this exact same thing happen to me. Then last night I attempted a second extraction from a new batch and I can't get crystals to form. Should I be using only vinegar to dissolve my freebase and is adding salt necessary? I used a 1:1 of vinegar and water, 500 ml total, 10 grams of salt per 100 ml of solution. Getting frustrated with this supposedly "easy" extraction.