am I the only person who has gotten close to the same results as EW? I get 2g's of fluffy white from 100g's of acacia nearly every time

the only difference is I use glass through the whole process, and I skip the defatting step-

I suck out my naptha from the base mix into a small but deep glass candy dish, then let it evap for 15 mins before pouring into my freeze precip glassware, I think the time I let it sit, all the oils set on the bottom and the goodies pour right off, leaving me with 99.9% xtal after the freeze precip,

I wanna try the evap tek hopefully I can find some free time in the next few months to do so

We skip first defat too, ive never gotten anything out that way, IDK what I'm doing wrong but it just wastes naps for me. Its all about the backsalt man, I'm a convert and true believer to the church of the backsalt!

Currently got some pulls from a base soup (100grams bark) and where I'd usually acid and defat before commencing the wash, after reading this, I'd like to skip the defat and go straight to the clean. Question being how do I clean it from this process? Where I'd usually prepare an acidic solution, pour the dmt rich naptha in there, remove all the naptha, re-base, pull, I'm muddled in what to do next!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I would do exactly that. Forget about the 'defat'.
Back salting via an A/B step will get you very clean results. Take all your pulls and drop it back into 500ml of water and enough of your choice of acid to bring it to a pH of 2. Swirl it around for 10 minutes gently. Base it back to pH 12-12.5 and warm gently. Then pull with fresh naphtha until the mix is depleted.

Evaporate your final pulls down until you are happy with the saturation point and either leave to evaporate slowly or freeze precipitate. Both will get you nice results, you'll grow bigger crystals from evaporating the whole lot slowly, but it's not necessary. 24 Hours in the freezer is just fine.

Sorry for the late reply guys and many thanks for the help. Please excuse my lack of "being on the ball"... So skipping the defat: the strength of the acidic solution is enough to draw all the DMT back from the naptha into the new solution?

Would I then pull out the original naptha before rebasing or is it a case of leaving it in there, base and then "Then pull with fresh naphtha until the mix is depleted".

Once again, thanks to everyone in advance.
KoS.

We skip first defat too, ive never gotten anything out that way, IDK what I'm doing wrong but it just wastes naps for me. Its all about the backsalt man, I'm a convert and true believer to the church of the backsalt!

I think others are achieving the 2% yield. We're coming definitely close, this last was a test using 25g acrb and with the first pull after backsalt, .24g of what you see above, so I think we could come close after further pulls. It's not pure DMT tho, there's def some NMT too. The xtal has held form, and scrapes up not fully powder, but flaky. Infact, the longer it sits, the more it solidifies and grows. The dish was accidentally fully evapped and put in the freeze anyway due to partner not fully grokking the process,lol, so it was full evap. No loss tho all worked fine.

Do you think your "settling' method separates NMT as goo from the final yeild? Pardon my ignorance if this is impossible... have you ever retrieved what was left in the candy dish as opposed to the 'goodies'?

Over the last few days, watching it change form and grow has been a great learning experience, you know when you finally get that AHA! So that's it!

Hey guys, a quick question if you don't mind.

Sorry if this has been asked before, I've read and re-read the tek and the entirely of this thread several times and I think that I have a pretty good understanding of things, but my question is this, when you refer to "backsalting" in the clean up steps do you mean turning the freebase dmt back to its salt form? And this is the same thing as a mini a/b right?

I got confused with the salting in step 2 and need some clarification.

Thanks for the help.

The reason why you add NaCl in step 2. is to ionize the solution and initially free most of the dmt salts from the plant material/fats, correct?

Very nice indeed, good job

Lots of hyperspace journeys sittin there, use wisely friend, and be safe!

eh, didnt have time to wait so I just added the CS hopefully sitting for 5 hours wont be too long