Been reading a lot about these steps. I think I'm just overthinking this since I already ruined some rue extraction when I played around with coffee filters and shirts and they kept on clogging because of the powdered rue seeds.
So now I've got Harmala HCl. Is 200 mg enough to try the conversion to freebase? To see if it will be successful
How much am I bound to lose on the filters and jars etc?
So let me scrutinize the steps:
Convert baking soda to sodium carbonate in oven at 205C for 1 hour
1) or is baking soda (sodium BIcarbonate) enough to use instead of sodium carbonate? So there would be no need to convert sodium bicarbonate to sodium carbonate
Prepare a solution of sodium carbonate and water
2) is tap water enough for all these steps
3) how much water to use in ml
4) how much sodium carbonate to dissolve in the water?
Dissolve the 200 mg harmala hcl in hot water
5) how much water to use here?
6) how hot water in C
Slowly add the prepared sodium carbonate + water solution to the harmala hcl+water solution?
7) how much of the solution to add...
should the the hcl+water solution still be hot
Then separate the liquid from the freebase harmalas?
9) decant by just pouring the liquid off? Or suck as much as I can with a syringe?
Add 200 ml of water to the freebase and shake the container a while and then wait until the freebase has fallen again.
Then separate the liquid again?
10) is 200 ml too much?
Repeat that a few times?
11) Is filtering necessary? Should I use a coffee filter (I'm not good with coffee filters, they seem to clog so easily) and just put the rest of the freebase + liquid remainants into a coffee filter?
Or should I just skip the filtering and transfer the freebase and the rest of the water+remainants of sodium carbonate into a pyrex dish under a fan to dry?
I'm wondering if enough of sodium carbonate would have been got rid of by that washing step and no coffee filtering is required?
Then just scrape the pyrex dish and consider it done.
Wow lots of questions to ask from a few steps..Thank's a lot y'all