First of all, please don't give SWIM a hard time and tell Him to utfse. Because He has. SWIM has read the faq and has tried everything and He is brand new to all of this.
Anyhow, here it goes. SWIM did an extraction using q21q21 vinegar/Lime A/B with Naphtha as the solvent. He used 1ml of solvent per gram of bark powder. He got a lot of crystals in the pan. No matter what SWIM does they melt and SWIM is losing a lot.
Here is what he's tried. He's tried pouring off the solvent quickly and setting out the pan to dry, failed=melted.
SWIM tried scraping the crystals while in the cold solvent and filtering through coffee filter, set out to dry, failed.
SWIM did the same thing again, but this time put the coffee filter, back into the freezer for a few hours then took it out to dry, failed.
so SWIM figures, its the solvent getting warmed up and redissolving the crystals. what he does now is scrape the pan pour through a filter and THEN he pours cold water over the crystals (cause dmt isnt suppose to dissolve in water) to wash away solvent that could melt the crystals. set out to dry over a fan. failed. so SWIM repeated this step but this time put it in the freezer for a few hours, removed it, the coffee filter is now frozen and when he left it out to dry it melted.
Swim is visibly upset at this point, but hasnt given up. He now tries pouring off the solvent resealing the container and placing it back in the freezer upside down for 3 hrs. removes the lid and sets the pan out to dry, failed=melted.
Since this method is in the faq of the site and it must work, SWIM guesses he's not doing it right. After pouring off the solvent and placing the container in the freezer upside down, after taking it out swim suspects that when he removes the lid, condensation builds up on the crystals and melts them.
Should swim wait till the container gets to room temp. before removing the lid? if not what should he do?
ty peace
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