Well, it looks like SWID had a very good weekend! He did a 10g cook this weekend and ended up with some product. SWID has been bouncing off the walls since noon saturday.

He hasent finished the extracting all of the product yet, he ran out of time and had to stop. He will finish sometime this week and lett everyone know the end results, But He can tell you this much, hes very pleased with his project so far.

There was one strange thing that happened and SWID was hoping someone could help with. When he based the RXN fluid the NP turned a light blue! This did not carry over to the acid extraction but it scared him a little at first. Product truned out OK....VERY KICK ASS!!

Thanks to all who helped guide SWID during these lasat few weeks. My hats off to you!

Congrats Darksky!!!! It's a very good feeling

Runs right up there w/ having sex for the first time. Don't know for sure about the blue color, possibly the adulterant, tripolidine. Check the pill ingredients and see if this was one. If the np turned blue, then I assume you weren't using coleman's.

Anyhoo, if the shit was good that's what counts.

Swim's shit turns blue because of a TCE/Jap drier cleaning, but a few acetone washes removes it.

Congrats Darksky! So i'm takeing it that this was swids first success, if so, how many times did swids try before this? Also if you dont mind shareing could you tell how many times it took before swids got the RP, E, and I, down pat? I mean how many times did it take before swids got the E from the extraction, good clean RP and I.

OK Folks, here’s SWID’s write-up on his Saturday morning RXN:

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10gE/10gRP/15gI2 in a 500ml flask. E was derived from Dollar Store generic 60mg and cleaned using the IDEA method. RP was matchbook quality dry and clean, I2 was from Tincture, crystals formed and washed with Dh2o.

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E and Rp were mixed DRY in flask thoroughly the night before and I2 added to this at the start of the cook. Reaction did not start so flask was placed in a pot of sand containing vegetable oil and heated to 155°. Some bubbling of ingredients noticed but very minor. 2ml of Dh2o was added to flask and bubbling quickened slightly.

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After 1 hour ingredients appeared to be extremely dry and very slow bubbling. 2ml of Dh2o were again added to flask and heat was slowly raised to 210° over a 1hour period. Bubbles continued to be small and very slow. Ingredients still appeared very thick and dry so after 2 hours and an additional 1ml of Dh20 was added to the flask and bubbles continued at a steady pace.

After 2 ½ hours bubbles appeared to slow and heat was raised to 215° and a few drops of Dh2o were again added to flask. Bubbling slowed even further but some occasional movement was noticed. After 3 hours no additional bubbles were forming. RXN NEVER produced large bubbles as SWID was looking for.

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Flask was removed from heat and allowed to cool. 100ml of Dh2o were added to the flask after it was cool and this mixture was swirled and filtered through 3 coffee filters with a cotton plug in neck of funnel. “Honey” was re-filtered through coffee filters with RP for a total of 3 times. Color of “Honey” was a medium yellow that appeared cloudy.

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To filtered “honey” Toluene was added in the amount of approx 3 times the volume of “honey” and this was shaken and allowed to set for 10 minutes and separate. Toluene took on a yellowish, cloudy character and “honey” appeared to loose some of the yellow color. This Toluene wash was repeated 4 times with Toluene assuming more of the yellow color with each wash until it finally remained clear. “Honey” had lost all of the yellow color at this time but still appeared to be slightly cloud.

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Cleaned “honey” was added to 200ml of Toluene and this mixture was based and swirled until a milky appearance, with occasional solids on surface, was assumed and maintained. IMMEDIATELY UPON THE BASE BEING POURED THROUGH THE NP LIGHT BLUE CLEAR COLOR WAS ASSUMED BY THE NP. Based NP solution was allowed to set for 10 minutes. NP’s blue color appeared to deepen slightly as migration of freebase took place. NP was removed, collected in a separate jar. 200ml of NP was again added to base solution and some addition NaOH fluid was added to this to insure the integrity of the mixture, contents swirled and allowed to set for 10 minutes. Again, immediately upon coming in contact with the base fluids, NP again assumed a light blue clear color deepening slightly. SWID also noticed that as he poured additional based fluid through NP that there were noticeable steaks of blue penetrating NP (which appeared to be caused by the NaOH pre-mixed solution…Red Devil lye was used) as base fluid made its way through NP. This NP layer was collected and added to the jar with the other NP. Again 200ml of NP was added to the base solution (again NP turned blue) and more NaOH fluid was added. Mixture went into lye-lock and a slight amount of hot Dh2O was immediately added and stirred until there was no more lye-lock. This mixture was shaken vigorously and put aside to set for 3 days at this time.

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75ml of Dh2O with 10 drops of Muriatic acid was added to the NP collected from the first 2 pulls and shaken vigorously for several minutes, then layers allowed to separate and polar layer was collected and PH reading taken, PH was measured at 8.5 for this pull. None of the blue color that NP had assumed was transferred polar substance. Polar substance was placed in a Pyrex dish for eventual evaporation. An additional 75ml of Dh2oO with 10 drops of acid was added to the NP, shaken and a PH reading was taken. PH measured at 8 so 2 more drops of acid was added to mixture, shaken vigorously and allowed to separate. This was then collected and added to the dish with the first polar substance and these were evaporated over low heat on the stove with the aid of a hair dryer continuously blowing across the surface of the fluid. Once evaporated a yield of 2g was obtained.

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75ml of Dh2O with 16 drops of acid was added to the NP solution, shaken and PH measured at 7.5. This fluid was shaken vigorously for several minutes and put aside to set for 3 days at this time.

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Tomorrow (Tuesday) SWID will collect the polar fluids from the NP and set this aside. SWID will then remove the NP from jar the with the base fluids, add this to the jar with the other NP’s and do two more Dh2O/acid pulls to this and then evaporate what is left.

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SWID believes that the low 2g yield from the first 2 pulls is do to a higher PH level and not much migration of product to polar level. He expects the pulls he does tomorrow to produce better results and increased amounts due to the proper adjustment of the PH level.

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ALSO, SWID noticed a slight yellow appearance to the first 2g he collected and figures that this is due to orange GAAK which was not adequately removed during the E extraction phase (SWID would appreciate ANY feedback on the IDEA method he used on the generic 60’s, perhaps IDEA is not the proper approach for these pills).

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SWID did not re-crystallize the first 2g, reason being he had no intention of smoking this product (his approach is more along the Bang-Bang line) and did not believe that the GAAK presented an immediately problem considering his usage approach. Also, SWID was very anxious to try his new product and just could not wait. Product was very, very good and has keep SWID bouncing off walls for several days. Needles to say every night since Friday night has been a sleepless night and the prospects of sleep tonight do not appear to be any better. SWID does plan on sleeping tomorrow night Tuesday).

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SWID will let everyone know what the final, total yield of product is once process is finished. SWID also has intentions of re-crystallizing the product he receives from this final evaporation.

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SWID, once again, wants to thank all for their support and assistance which made his FIRST successful RXN possible. SWID has had 5 failures prior to this achievement, (10g, a 5g and 3-3g’s) all failed for various reasons that SWID learned valuable lessons from. SWID only sees steady improvement for every RXN from this point forward.