dreamingstill wrote:Also, just so I get everything right (sorry if I'm being redundant at all, just want to make sure I'm on point)
1) Do the regular naptha pull with the bark mix
2) Pour into the jar, cover the lid
3) put in the freezer for ~12 hours
4) take out of the freezer, bring to room temp
No, bring out of the freezer and immediately pour off the naphtha, before it warms up. Otherwise, some of the dmt would redissolve in the warming up naphtha. Then quickly put the lid back on and let the closed jar with dmt crystals warm up to room temperature. Any condensate formed on the outside of the jar can be wiped off easily.
dreamingstill wrote:6) add smaller amount of warm naptha, swish around to get as much xtal as possible
7) pour that naptha into an evap dish that's easier to scrape
8 ) let that evaporate fully
9) scrape as usual
If your naphtha is not pure enough for full evaporation (which would concentrated any impurities from dirty naphtha onto the dmt), you can also use freeze precipitation a second time instead. In my experience, it isn't hard to get the crystals out of jars.
If you don't want to recrystallize, you can skip steps 6 to 9. Simply remove the lid from the jar once it is no longer cold and let the last bits of naphtha evaporate. You'll be surprized how much there still is after pouring off the cold naphtha! It may even be enough to redissolve significant amounts of dmt crystals. Don't worry about that, they'll come back when the naphtha evaporates.
If you want to minimize the amount of naphtha that needs to be evaporated, a neat trick is to close the jar after pouring off the cold naphtha and putting the jar back in the freezer upside down. After 15 minutes, most of the naphtha will have collected onto the cap of the jar. Take the jar out of the freezer again while keeping it upside down and carefully open the lid a bit to allow the naphtha to drain. Then close the jar again and let it warm up in upright position before opening it up to let the last bits of naphtha evaporate.
dreamingstill wrote:I guess my only question is would the warm naptha damage the xtals in any way? Also, is re-freezing the same as doing re-crystaling where it would form larger, more manageable crystals?
Warm naphtha will not damage the dmt molecules. It will redissolve the crystals, but not any impurities that may have come over during the initial naphtha pulls from the basified plant matter. When you transfer the redissolved dmt into a new container, be careful not to also transfer the undissolved impurities, that would defeat the purpose of the recrystallization.
Redissolving in fresh solvent and reprecipitating is recrystallization. The type and size of crystals you will get depends on the conditions during the recrystallization. A slow process will favor the growth of larger crystals.
dreamingstill wrote:Oh, and when I pour the warm naptha from the initial pull, should I wait for that to cool down to room temperature before covering it with the lid and putting it into the freezer? Just wondering because I think capping it right away with the warm naptha will cause condensation if it's put in the freezer, but I might be wrong.
Your freezer has to do a lot more work if it has to cool warm naphtha. So, with energy conservation in mind, letting it cool down first is better. Putting a hot glass jar in a very cold freezer could also crack the glass due to the temperature shock.
Condensation is not an issue here, it only happens when a relatively cold object is placed in an environment with a relatively high humidity. That is why you should keep the jar capped (except when pouring off the naphtha) while it is still ice cold at step 4. The inside of your freezer has a very low humidity and you will be putting a relatively warm object into it.