question one: does acetone need to be anhydrous for the final seperation and evaporation, or can i just use regular hardware store acetone ?

question 2: Does it make a difference to use tap water compared to purified when miking fumarates and calcium hydroxide?

question 3: when filtering solids, can i filter through a coffe filter. or would that be bad?

thanks for any feedback.
love & light

q 1
pleas do some searching

q 2
depends on your drinking water if you want to be sure at least use clean bottled water. Also why would you use hydroxide?

q 3
coffee filters will do fine

this is from the method posted by 69ron in the "dmt fumarates and beyond" thread.
my apologies for the redundant question, just everywhere i look every just writes acetone. but im just assuming since ts in the FASA section that anhydrous is most likely the way to go, or at least it wont hurt. and im only using calcium hydroxide because thats what the instructions said, and I just so happened to have some already. im new to fumarates so please have mercy on my grom chemistry, everyones gotta start somewhere

BLAB tek has conversion instructions.. Hope that helps

Here's a whole bunch of conversion TEKs:

https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/Category:Conversion_Tek

Anhydrous acetone certainly doesn't hurt. I'm not sure if the very small percentage of water in hardware store acetone would make any huge difference, but it might leave a small amount of contamination in the final product.


I always use distilled water for purity and pH's sake. Tap water may leave some minerals in your final product depending on the additives in your local tap water (if any), but obviously nothing that you don't already ingest every time you drink a glass of water!


You might lose some product by doing this, but probably not a significant amount. Plus anything that remains in the filter can be retrieved relatively easily by soaking the dry DMT-laden filter in warm IPA for a while and evaporating the IPA. Or you could probably use the DMT-laden coffee filter to roll a changa-blunt!