Thanks for the responses. SWIM has the left over naphta of 2nd pull freezing and actually has what looks like glorious white crystals coating sides and bottom of glass container. SWIM isn't sure if these will melt when taken out to dry or not or if it is even DMT.

After you pulled the naphta you set it to reduce then froze?

You sound like you had success with your ACRB mind sharing what you did in more detail if possible (pm perhaps). SWIM might have put too much lye in the ACRB and caused it to get to hot getting oils/fats since the naphta was very dark red and cloudy.

I'll do my best to explain.

-50g ACRB Shredded
-1.5L Glass Wine Jug http://vinumvita.com/wp-...aisano-Table-210x263.jpg
-Vinegar
-Distilled Water
-Pyrex dish with airtight snap lid (rectangular)
-Lye Beads
-Stove
-Good sized pots

Take shredded ACRB, put in pot. Fill pot with 1000ml of distilled water. Add a dash of vinegar. Bring to a boil and then turn down to med-high heat to a slow rolling boil. Let it simmer/boil for 1 1/2 hours - 2 hours. Pour off first boil into separate pot. Fill the first pot with 1000ml water again and repeat this step 2 more times.

After all 3 boils are collected put them into the glass wine jug. Then mix up 300ml water with 65g lye in a separate glass container, slowly adding the lye beads to the water, stirring ever so gently. When the lye is dissolved in the water, then add the saturated lye water to the glass wine jug with the ACRB boils. The color in the jug should turn jet black. Let sit for an hour or so.

You'll notice after adding the ACRB boils to the wine jug and adding the lye water to the wine jug that there is still about 200=300ml of open space in the top of the jug until you get to the very neck of the jug. Take some distilled water and add it to the wine jug until the ACRB/Lye mix is up to the bottom of the neck of the jug. (you'll see why in a sec)

Now that your based ACRB mix is up to the bottom of the neck of the wine jug, you have about 50-75ml of space in the neck of the jug.

Add 50-60ml of room temp naphtha to the jug. Mix end over end and roll jug around on the floor fast but gently. Just DONT SHAKE IT. Do this for 10 minutes. Let the naphtha make it's way to the top of the jug. You'll notice the naphtha has made it's way right up into the neck of the wine jug, so you'll have a very easy time collecting the naphtha from the top! (that's why i use these jugs). Do this step 5-6 times. (IF THE NAPHTHA ISN'T SETTLING PROPERLY THEN STICK IN A HOT WATER BATH AND THINGS SHOULD SEPARATE)

After you collect your 5 to 6 pulls of naphtha in the pyrex plate, stick in front of a fan and let the naptha evap down to a 1/3 or 1/4 of it's original volume. Then after it has evaporated down, snap on airtight lid and stick in the freezer for 36 hours.

Take out pyrex dish after 36 hours, take lid off and decant naphtha into glass. Take the pyrex dish and put it flat against the wall with the xtals/open part of the dish facing the fan. Turn fan on high and let xtals dry.

This was my method. Not sure what factor led to me getting white crystals, but i hope in light of my experience with ACRB, that this helps you or someone else.

much love,
tat

I have no idea why I never thought to use a Carlo bottle as an extraction vessel. It is a pretty ideal shape.

Wow thanks a lot Tat! Will refer to that if this didn't work out for SWIM.

UPDATE:

SWIM has separated the goo that was at the bottom and white crystals on the sides/bottom onto two separate lids to sit. Amount is almost 50/50 what looks like dmt/ dmt saturated nmt goo. The dmt looks very white and clean with some yellow areas of the goo in it possibly.

SWIM might post pics soon if that is ok to do.

@alert - Yeah man, it's what i've used ever since i started extracting, and i've always liked how the jug thins out at the top which makes it incredibly easy to decant off the top with a glass pipette.

@Dunghippy - Your welcome Hopefully it helps.

much love,
tat

After pulling several grams of crystal white spice from a kilogram of ACRB, and after reading so much about it, I finally got some goo! At first it had an oily consistency, but when scraped it hardened into a light-yellow wax. I am excited to see the similarities and differences between the crystal-porn spice and the beeswax/ goo spice. My only dilemma is how I want to store it. From what I have read, it seems like the easiest way to store the legendary goo is to dissolve in solvent, then use it to enhance some leaf matter or pour the solvent into a vial and let it evaporate. Would dry acetone be the best solvent to use for this? I figured it would do well since it evaporates very quickly, but will the goo dissolve completely in a small amount of it? What solvents have my fellow Nexians had luck with for this purpose?

I apologize for the low resolution, but the only camera I have access to is my poor-quality cell phone camera.

Yeah, dry acetone is ideal for moving your product from where it is now into a storage container. It is also good for making enhanced leaf.

If you want to make changa (enhanced leaf + harmalas) you would be better off using 91+% isopropyl alcohol or 95% ethanol. Acetone isn't the best solvent for dissolving freebase harmalas.

Thanks!

I dissolved some clear goo (freeze precipitated) in 91% IPA last night and today it has dried as a yellowish wax with crystalline structure noticeable in some parts. Not quite sure why the alcohol changed the consistency/color so much but the resulting solid is easier to handle/store that is for sure.

nice.
thank you
...answered many questions.

I have a question.

I used Q21Q21 white tek on ACRB. No defatting step, so obviously I got goo/Jungle.

I scooped up a fair bit of it and was going to re-x with some hexane I have but I had trouble getting it off the razors blades. Since they're stainless steel I just dropped them in a shot glass and added boiling hexane (~77C). I let that sit a bit and then removed the blades with some steel tweezers but I noticed some goo still on the blades.

My question is this. D melts at 40C and the goal with Heptane/Hexane re-x is to basically only pull the D out. Can I assume that the goo no longer contains any D and that its just other unwanted alkalines? Just in case I've saved the blades and left the goo on.

there might still be some magic trapped inside the goo, I would work out a way to get the goo into solvent and give it a good stir about just to make sure

So I'm a little confused. I used the hexane and I didn't question it at first cause I thought maybe it was a slow process, but the goo didn't disolve in the hexane. I put it in the freezer and it clouded up like it had crystals floating in it. So I left it alone for 12-14 hours. I came home after work and poured the solvent off because it was clear finally. There were 2-3 white crystal like things sitting on the glass bottom but they looked suspiciously like ice. I also noticed the goo on the glass bottom hadn't disolved after all. I attached a pick showing it.

Sure enough once the glass came to room temp the white things melted, you can see the place where they were from the rings near the goo.

Did I not get and crystals because the goo didn't dissolve? Or what? Do I need to heat the goo up more to get it to dissolve? maybe place the glass in my double boiler and boil the hexane in that?

So just to put my two cents out there, i did my first ever X on ACRB. My glass pan showed white puffs all over after freeze precip, along with swaths of white milkyness in the solvent floating around. I decanted the solvent into a second pan for continued freeze precip. I dried the first pan only to find it had turned clear. I scraped this up which then turned into red jimjam goo.

I then took this jimjam and did a sodium bicarb + water / naphtha wash. freeze precip'd this naphtha in a pan again. Next day i had 100% all white puffs of crystal.

The second pan was evap'd and scrapped. At first it was a yellowish clear oil. after scraping it suddenly and quickly turned waxy and offwhite, with maybe a tinge of yellow.

a third pan was also involved. this pan was a result of a previous ACRB naphtha decant. it yeilded a bright yellow goo that i have yet to wash. smells very much of indole.

So, as a newb i can now confirm ACRB can yield white crystal even for the newbs like me. Just gota follow directions.

Just to confirm. You put the goo in the water+bicarb and then added the naphtha to pull it out? Did you have to heat the water+bicarb solution in order to fully dissolve the goo into the solution?

I dissolved the goo first in warm/hot naphtha, then once its mixed well i let it cool a bit to room temp.

Edit: then mix sodium bicard + water(warm/heated) separately.



then combined into a 50ml glass vial with cap, shook hard, waited for separation, then decanted the naphtha.

Don't forget to re-heat your naptha during this process, as combining the sodium bicarb and water will cool it, and we all know what happens when hot saturated naptha cools.

I am so happy this is a sticky, thanks for the input, thanks for the input it deffinently taught me something!

I think this depends on the NMT/DMT ratio in the source material as well as the solvent used.

true that makes sense.

I just used the average used supplies (as i understood them):

half gallon BALL jar
naphtha
lye
natural sea salt
citric acid
filtered water (spring water)
Cybs Max ION tek.

Note: I heated naphtha to 115F for pulls. just a guess temp to use based on "ok that was hot" when touching it and cybs tek said warm/hot.