Tangarine_Dreams wrote:soo ive got a bit less than 2g of spice in a beaker, i slowly added 100ml of heptane. setting it settle and pulling it off every 25ml. as i pulled it off much dmt was still solid at the bottom. the heptane instantly turned yellow! as i pulled more and more solvent thru the beaker, the solid spice kept getting WHITER AND WHITER!!! my re-x was working backwards....
this is the first time i tried to clean my spice with room temp heptane, not hot. i assumed it would pick up less yellow, but instead it is JUST picking up oils.
i took 1.2g of tan/pink/orange fishscale in a 10ml vial. to this i added about 8ml of heptane. i pulled, evapped in an AL dish over a triple boiler. i did this with about 24ml. upon evap, it yielded nearly exclusively oil that finally hardened 15min-45 later.
why cant i get my spice white guys? it just seems like every time i try to clean it up using a cleaning tek it just does nothing for me and i loose product.
using bestine for re-x and kleenstrip vmp for initial.
I'm having the same problem. 30 ml heptane : 1g spice. Several different tries with heptane at between 130 - 150 degrees f. The heptane (bestine) turns yellow and clear crystals form at bottom of shotglass and refuse to dissolve. One time I had to bring the heptane up to 179 degrees before dissolution. I get some gunk stuck to the bottom, but after several re-x's my spice is still yellow. This is spice from a noman mhrb stb btw. It is getting lighter in color but much lighter in weight.
I feel like my re-x is working backwards too. Just like TD said. In the beginning, the heptane turns yellow and clear chunky xtals are in the bottom. I can try to filter these out and see if they are yellow or clear. Can't tell because of the yellow solvent.
What I'd really like to know is why I am having trouble dissolving my spice in 130-150 degree heptane.
I've followed the tek in the wiki and in the glass shard post. I just can't seem to get it to work.
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