Hey man. These other guys covered most of it, but here it is again anyway.
-Wash post rxn fluid 3 times with xylene or naptha (NP)
-Add fresh NP 1/3 volume of post rxn fluid
-Add saturated (1:1 ratio) NaOH solution until pH ~13-14
-Stir/Swirl vessel for a few minutes. Let layers seperate for at least 15-20 min.
-Remove NP layer from water layer by suctioning with a large syringe (Meat marinade injector)
-Add fresh NP to vessel
-Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6 a total of 3 times.
Combine all NP pulls and wash with cold water, then hot water, then one wash with a 20% NaOH solution.
-**Add dH20 1/3 the volume of NP
-**Add HCl acid dropwise until water layer is pH 6-6.5
-**Remove water layer from the vessel by suctioning it from under the NP layer with a DIFFERENT syringe that has a short piece of tubing attached.
-**Repeat steps 8, 9, and 10 a total of 3 times.
-**Combine 3 lots of dH20 and evaporate over very low heat until surface has skinned over, then quickly pour in a large volume of cold, dry acetone to "flash" the dH20 and crash out any remaining product. Pan the meth to one side of the dish, and decant any liquids into a jar or beaker and place in the freezer for later crystal collection.
-Scrape up the meth after it has dried, and wash well in acetone before using.
**Swic really prefers gassing to titrating for better yields, and at this point, after the wash with 20% NaOH solution, he simply dries the NP well with baked Epsom salts, decants the NP off of the Epsoms into another beaker, and gasses until no more meth precipitates from the NP. After filtering the meth out of the NP, the crystals are rinsed thoroughly with cold dry acetone, and allowed to dry. The cake of meth is then dissolved in a minimal amount of boiling IS0, and acetone is added until just before the solution starts to cloud. Then the beaker is capped off and placed in the freezer for the night. Clean, shiny meth is then harvested from the beaker the following morning, and quickly rinsed with cold acetone and allowed to dry.
This is just one of about 800 million different ways to accomplish the same thing. Do whatever works best for you dude.
Later
CN