pitubo wrote:Boiling it down (without burning it), then adding lye solution and letting that dry will take more time than freeze precipitation, which is also a shorter route if your desired end product is freebase.
Dryteks are frowned upon, being associated with commercially motivated large scale extractions, which we certainly don't want to see here.
Yeah ok, i thought it might. But, there isn't as much effort as there is within having to do pulls so many times and keep putting it in the freezer. I'd much prefer to set and forget about it for a few days while it dries.
Are you talking about the proper dry teks in the wiki or my idea of a drytek here (essentially a/b but remove bark after cooking)?
Also, why are dryteks associated with large scale extractions? I have just read both
Q21Q21's tek and also
Amor fati's tek and don't see how that functions because the proportions of the bark would far outweigh the proportions of solvent? (at least if you didn't do the acid cooks like both dryteks state).
In other words, if you worked on 1kg of bark, you would eventually boil that down to 1L and use less solvent than you would on a large scale drytek?
Also, why do the teks call for lime "THIS TEK WILL NOT WORK WITH LYE, IT IS ONLY MADE FOR LIME" where lye would work fine? The reasons supplied in the tek seemed to be concerned with safety only.
Those questions aside, i am just trying to find a way to use acetone only as the solvent but the dry teks aren't
truly dry so it wouldn't work due to its polar nature.