OK . . . . ...... I finally got some 99% anhydrous IPA and decided on the FASI option. I seemed the easiest of the options available. I have followed the BLAB tek step for step with one exception, I have taken about three weeks to get to this point. Due to work and other obligations I just didnt have the time to just knock it out. The bark soake a long time and each d-limo pull sat in the basic solution for several days.

I have never done this before, Could somebody tell me if this looks right?

So here I am now.. picture one is the clear d limo after filtering ready for FASI pic 2 is the cloud after the first 10ml of FASI. Pic 3 is :20 min after all the FASI was deposited into the d limo. Pics 4,5 are after 3 hours. Seems like there is allot in there.

Does this look right?

Looks good to me.

very good

I envy you! How much bark if i may ask?

I used one kilo of high quality mhrb divided up into two one gallon hdpe2 jugs, 500gm each.

Here is a pic of my collection jar at 16 hours. It looks like there is two distinct layers. There is a solid bottom layer and then a very crystally shiny fluffy top layer. I'm thinking the bottom layer is just tiny shards that have been compacted down. I'm pretty excited. There is allot in there in this first FASI go round. There is one thin cloud of crystals left that is still precipitating, the rest of the liquid is clear.

Looks beautiful!

After you seperate that, leave the d-limo in a jar for another week or so and lots more will crash out.
It just keeps on giving!

Nice work my friend.

Pokey

At the 24hr mark the dlimo was clear so I decided to add a little more FASI just to see what would happen. The first couple of drops formed little clouds, so I ended up puting another 50ml FASI into the beaker and now I have a very thick layer of milky cloud once again. Its interesting to watch. The fine shards just drop out of the cloud. I'm gonna let this sit a couple of days and then I will decant and attempt to pull some more.

I'll try and update in a couple of days with the results.

I cant see myself ever doing STB again. d limo is the way to go.

Whaaat?

I'm so jealous, you have no idea! Ha, ha. Very nice job with the extraction. Please, please keep us updated!

Well after 4 days, I finally got around to seperating the precip spice and the d limo/FASI. It's gotta dry out a bit and I gotta get the d limo residue off of it. Maybe convert some to freebase. D-limo is a wonderful way to extract, however my plan was to make some changa, so. Any advice on the simplest most direct route from fumarate to changa? Here is a pic or two of the results thus far.

hahah awesome! first pic looks like mashed potato

curious about the final yield

I guess the way to changa would be make paste with sodium carbonate, dry, pull with ipa/acetone and evap onto some herbs

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I am also, I'm guessing 12 grams + or -

I gotta dry it out a bit first. I will keep you updated.

how many limo pulls and how big the pull in each container? did you put them together for the fasi? did you later wash the limo and reuse or added fresh limo each time?

I started with 1 kilo. I put 500grams of powderized mhrb into two hpde 2 jugs 1 gallon. I followed the BLAB Tek steps exactlt except, I did 3 150ml d limo pulls with fresh d limo each time. Each pull was allowed to sit for a day or two. So it took me a little more than a week to pull 1 liter of alkaloid saturated d limo. I combined the pulls into a 1 liter beaker for fasi. I seperated the precipitated spice and fasi/d limo and I put the fasi/limo back into a beaker. It is still salting out more spice.

So, I want to make some changa. I have a good feel for how to convert fumarate to freebase. My big concern right now is how to clean up what I have. I decanted the FASI/d limo into a new beaker, its still slowly precipitating. I took the fumarate spice and put it in a small pyrex baking dish. I took a razor and chopped it all up fine and that released all the liquid that was still in it.

I ended up with a good amount of wet, yellow, granulated, pasty spice, that smells of spice, IPA, and d limo. I know I need to clean this and get rid of the residual d limo and fumaric acid.

My plan is to dissolve the whole lot in about 100ml of H2O, decant the yellowish clear liquid (ipa, H2O, and full range spice) and evap that. What should be left behind is the fumaric acid and d limo?


Could someone please verify this for me. Is this the procedure to follow or is there a better way to clean this up?

Thanks for the help.

seems like good way to clean up, yeah.. I dont think the limo would stay behind though, being lighter than water it should stay on top of the liquid... but it would be given more time to evap, so there should be very very little left in the final product... The only way I can think of cleaning 100% the limo would be to have this water in a very thin tall container (or pippete or whatever), so the limo would form a layer on the top which can be separated.. But I guess you will have so little limo that it will be negligible

I wash it in acetone once or twice before recrystalizing with water. Works really well for me.

Pokey

Well I took what I had precipt out and added 200ml of warm H2O and shook the shit out of it. After an hour or two I seperated the d-limo layer and put the clear yellow fumerate saturated liquid into a pyrex baking dish for evap. Below are the results.

Looks like brown sugar.

Mmmmm.... Delicious!

Pokey

This looks amazing! SWIM has been planning on trying her first BLAB soon, and just got hot to trot.

BLAB is the cat's meow. You'll never go back!

Pokey