I looked and found a post the traveler made but the links were broken..

I am getting some MHRB and want to do an extraction, but lets just say i'm a bit of a noob. I have heard of a/b and stb teks, i'm not sure how good these are, but I do know that they use some pretty harsh chemicals. I'm OK with using naptha AS LONG as there is absolutely no chance of any naptha or any other chemical residue being left inside of the finished product. You guys think i should go with an a/b tek?

thank you!

wait i think i found a tek that i want to try! anybody have opinions on tek #2 here? https://wiki.dmt-nexus.m.../Lime_A/B_Extraction_Tek

I'd rather not use a chemical that can cause blindness to extract a product i'll be putting into my body It may have been proven to be safe and there may be no lye present in the finished product, but the principle to me is a bit shady. I would rather try the tek i linked which uses lime.

What kind of advantage is there using Lye over Lime anyways?

Try the FAQ as always, first... and the WIKI

What endlessness wrote: read read read. If you have questions: search, search and read, read. If your questions persist, but you have done enough homework to post a well-articulated question, only then ask on the forum.

Since you report yourself to be "a bit of a noob", you should not just read the FAQ and some of the "sticky" threads on top of the subforums, you should study them. I re-emphasize the sticky threads, these are made sticky because they contain important and/or very useful information.

Lye can blind you only if you get splashes of lye solution in your eyes. That is why it is very important to employ safety precautions while extracting, like always wearing safety glasses when handling lye. Similarly, flammable solvents should be kept meticulously away from sources of ignition and only used in well-ventilated spaces. The vapors are flammable (or even explosive in the right concentrations), and in many cases also toxic.

Very small remnants of lye in your product will not make you blind, unless you rub several grams of highly contaminated dmt in your eyes. The alkalinity of freebase dmt itself would probably be more harmful in that case than the minute amounts of lye. I personally think that lye contamination is overrated and can easily be eliminated by proper extraction procedure. Contamination from dirty solvents is a more likely problem, especially when people simply evaporate all the solvent instead of doing a freeze precipitation or FASA precipitation.

An advantage of lye over lime is that it is much better soluble than lime and is a much stronger base. If you want to do a STB extraction, lye is sort of indispensable. If you do an A/B extraction, you can use far more gentle bases, such as sodium carbonate even.

Try to understand the "whys" of the "hows" of extraction teks before you get your hands dirty. If you do not understand things, do some searching and some more reading, both on the forum and the wiki. Even if you do not get the straight answer that you were looking for, you'll likely learn other things that will come in handy eventually.

I'm not trying to convince you of anything, but this tek works bang on exactly as expected every single time without fail, it requires very small amounts of material per pull, it's really easy, and the guy in the video is british and charmingly awkward.

"One problem with lime, however, is that it is not very soluble in water. When lime and soda ash combine in a classic metathesis reaction, they produce lye, or sodium hydroxide. Lye combines the solubility of soda ash with the strong alkalinity of lime."

I am unsure what the exact purpose of this thread is, the title is "List of teks" and then I listed one and you said you wanted one you already chose. No diss, I'm just confused. If you are looking for nontoxic teks, there is one awesome one I can't find that is like all food grade stuffs and it's like all you need is like a mango and a fork and like a baseball, but I can't find it. In the mean time, here's a "food grade" tek:

https://wiki.dmt-nexus.m...oach_to_Spice_Extraction

https://www.dmt-nexus.me...aspx?g=posts&t=70690

Here's the TEK I followed yesterday :-)

Pukka white crystals all sorted in a short space of time !

FWIW, getting lime dust in the eyes could also cause blindness. And lime has been used for disposing of corpses.

If you're a n00b with MHRB, then lye plus naphtha really is the most straightforward route to enlightenment. This much should be clear to anyone who browses this site for a few minutes.


I'd be inclined to agree.

Isn't that quicklime, aka burnt lime, technically calcium oxide (CaO)? The lime used commonly in extraction teks is slaked lime, aka hydrated lime, technically calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2). Still not something to get into your eyes..

If the lye is too strong, you are too weak.





That's why you buy pretzel lye. You don't engage in illegal activites, just some pretzel baking in the oven. Also don't use naphta, use N-hexane or N-pentane or petroleum ether.



Cleansing and degreasing a variety of items, yay! Soybean oil extraction for the win!

Study this: https://wiki.dmt-nexus.me/DMT_Extraction_Overview

You don't have to ask a single question, everything and I mean EVERYTHING you need to know has been posted on the forum over and over again. Just read it.