After reading all the RAVE on VE's Straight to E pfed extraction technique in the posts, I decided maybe it was as simple as it seemed. So I tried it. DAMN!!!! I couldn't believe how easy it was. That was the shit. Getting the pfed out had been causing me more headaches than anything.
As I started cooking up my chilli later that evening, morning, I started wondering if the same technique could be used to extract the meth and dry it at the same time. Not being able to find a post in here anywhere I decided to try it. SURELY METH AND PFED ARE SIMILAR ENOUGH FOR BOTH WORK. I hate waiting for my shit to dry, especially when I'm out.
Here's my method and findings:
After pushing the freebase meth into the naphtha with the lye and separating, instead of adding water and producing the salt by adding muriatic acid I instead added a 70/70 mix of dried Isopropyl/Naphtha and mixed well. Then adding the muriatic acid to the Naphtha/Isopro mix and shaking severly the alcohol meth HCl separated out to the bottom (maybe it was the water from the muriatic acid?).
Then adding 50 ml of zylene to the mix I heated it gradually over about 45 min to 105 C. at which point I'll be damned if the crystals didn't fall out of the solution just like the pfed did. Filtering it off hot, there was a good 2 1/2 - 3 grams in the filter from 3 1/2 gm pfed start. I immediately grabbed the MEK to rinse with and OOPS!!! Shouldn't have done that!!!! It was gone. That pile of white powder dissolved in the MEK. I was able to salvage about .13 gm out of the filter.
Damn! Gotta start over. However, I do still have the mek rinse if anyone can help me to get my shit out.
Okay, let's try again. Nano reduction. 1 1/2 gm pfed to start. Same procedure except did not use zylene or MEK since I realized I am not trying to dissolve and wash out the GAK and fillers from the pills.
Results: Boiled almost completely gone with very little pricipitate, about 0.175 gm in filter which was rinsed with acetone and turned out white as snow. Not even sure this was meth with such a small amout, not very good anyway.
Added Zylene again next time pricipitated better and produced a little over 1/2 gm of okay stuff. Nano reduction must be a knack. My yields are still pretty low all the way around, about 35-50% after 3 months or so.
If what I am ending up with is in fact meth it appears that the isopro/Naphtha/Zylene mix rinsed with acetone seems to be a quick way to get the meth crystals out and dry.
If anyone else has tried this or has the chemisty background to explain why or why not this does or doesn't work I would love to here. Any ideas or references to quick drying would sure be appreciated.
This has got to work somehow. I will keep trying until I figure it out for sure.
