Livid: I beg to differ here.
Yes you can cook of the excess hcl but you better have a straw sucking feverishly over your evap dish when you do.
Because in order to remove the HCL with Heat, the meth will go up in smoke too.
Never in Ibee's experience has he ever been able to remove excess hcl from product by simply evapping the h2o/meth.
Yes you'll smell the excess hcl and you'll see the fog in the lab created by the heated excess hcl but you'll not completely remove all traces of excess hcl without employing tone or MEK as a rinsing agent.
And for further clarification, Ibee referred to the excess HCL as trash. Remove that with tone and THEN get the rest of the trash out via Recrystallization.
Okie Dokie?