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EXTRACTION TECHNIQUE: STRAIGHT TO E

A NOV E L PI L L EXTRA CTI ON T E CHN I QU E

by Videoeditor, HTM L by Rhodium

The following is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not the posters intent that this information be
used for anything that would be considered illegal or in violation of any international laws. The poster accepts no
responsibility for any and all activities that may be carried out as a result of the information contained herein. Check
your local, state and federal laws. The poster shall not be held liable and indemnified from impeachment for the use,
misuse, injury, death, imprisonment or fellation due to the application of this information.

- SUMMA RY -

SWIVE is back with a new twist for producing clean pseudo HCl in high yields from an ever changing array of
pills. It's not only water less like Straight to B, its simpler with no A/B at all. Its Straight to E or straight to the
extraction. It is a simple extraction method that will bypass most of today’s modern adulterants and will return a
very high yield of clean pseudo HCl. This can then be recrystallized or turned into free base to produce a pristine
product. This method was written to be easily scalable and is very over the counter. Average yields have been
80% to 90% of clean pseudo HCl.

- DEFINITIONS -

In this write up SWIVE will use the phrase "for every box of pills used" This stands for every box of 48 x 60mg, or
96 x 30mg, or 20 x 120mg or 10 x 240mg.

Text appearing in red denotes actions that should bee followed exactly for best results.

Text appearing in green denotes FAQ's (frequently asked questions).

- MA TERIA LS -
Three beakers or other heat proof glassware containers
(approximately 200ml for every box of pills used)
One elemeyer flask or other heat proof glassware container
(approximately 200ml for every box of pills used)
One graduated cylinder 100ml -200ml or other liquid measuring device in mls
Two 5" glass funnels or plastic fuel funnels
Filter Paper or coffee filters
Glass stirring rod or bamboo skewers
Hot plate
Small fan
Small scale weighing in grams
Safety glasses, latex gloves
Thermometer that is scaled to at least 120°C

- SOLV ENTS -
91% - 99% Isopropyl Alcohol (drug store)
MEK Methyl Ethyl Ketone (paint / hardware store)
VM&P Naptha - no substitutions (paint / hardware store)
(Do Not use Colemans, pet ether, lighter fluid, etc.)
Xylene (paint / hardware store)

- DRY ING A IDS -

Oven dried Epsom Salts or Washing Soda (drug / food store)
Salt (food store)

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- ABSTRACT OF PROCEDURE -
Make extraction fluid.
Place whole pills into beaker.
Add extraction fluid.
Heat to boiling, stirring until pills dissolve.
Filter while hot into elemeyer flask.
Repeat two times.
Return combined extractions to clean beaker.
Add Xylene
Heat to 105°C to boil off alcohol.
Filter out pseudo HCl.
Wash pseudo HCl with MEK and let dry.

- STA NDA RD PROCEDURE -

01) For every box of pills used: combine the following solvents and drying materials in a clean beaker
and in the following order:

70ml Isopropyl Alcohol

70ml VM&P Naptha
2 grams of salt
4 grams of dried epsom salts or dried washing soda

02) Stir with a glass rod for a few minutes, then let settle for 10 minutes. Depending on how much
water was in the isopropyl alcohol to start with the mixture will settle into 2 layers or 1 layer with
damp solids at the bottom.

Why not use pre dried solvents to begin with? - that is perfectly ok if you have them, but I have noticed
that adding the isopropyl and naptha together almost always releases some water no matter how dry they
were ahead of time so I would not skip this step.

03) Filter this into the elemeyer flask leaving any solids or bottom liquid layer behind and then
transfer this solution into the second clean beaker.

04) Place whole pills in to the third clean beaker.

Why whole pills? Don’t I need to grind them up first? - no we are trying to keep loss to a minimum and
grinding is not necessary as the isopropyl / naptha mixture will dissolve them very well.

05) Pour 1/3 solvent mixture over pills.

06) Place the beaker on the hotplate and bring to a boil using medium hi heat. Use the small fan to
keep vapors from accumulating. Stir occasionally with a glass rod until pills have dissolved into
powder. Let boil for 1-2 minutes.

07) Place a funnel with filter paper in to the elemeyer flask. Filter the solvent mixture while hot leaving
as much of the solids in the beaker as possible.

08) Return any solids to the beaker and repeat steps 5 through 7 two times combining the
extractions in to the elemeyer flask.

09) For every box of pills used add to the combined extractions:

- 50ml Xylene

10) Transfer the extraction mixture back to the empty solvent beaker and place the beaker on the
hotplate. Bring to a boil using the small fan to keep vapors from accumulating. Boil until the solution
reaches 105°C.

11) Using a clean funnel and filter paper filter off the pseudo HCl while the solution is hot.

12) Rinse the pseudo HCl with a generous amount of MEK while in the funnel.

13) Remove filter and filter cake from funnel and allow to dry completely. (no more MEK smell)

14) Weight and enjoy, yield should be between 80% to 90%

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HOW TO PERFORM THE "STRAIGHT TO E" EXTRACTION

COMMENTA RY BY GEEZ MEISTER

There is a way to do this technique. Do it Exactly The Way It Is Written.

Do this one time just like it is written.

This technique, done by the book ONE TIME will answer every question you have about it. If you don't
have a therm om eter go buy one. Do it just like DA MAN says.

Geezmeister went out and bought four boxes of white sixties. He obediently followed the procedure, since VE
would not answer any of his silly little questions, being smartassed enough to know the procedure would
answer them for him.

First time, less than two hours start to finish...well, less the absolute drying time for all the MEK to evaporate
off.

Yield: 98.3% Go figure. Total of 9.6 grams of fine white pseudo HCl crystals just like the ones Geez has been
harvesting from the xylene clean pseudo precipitation technique. Mind you, I haven't reacted these yet. I have
not recrystalized these yet. I am as dubious as I can be because frankly, this is too good to be true, and you
probably know my attitude about things that are too good to be true. Most of them are.

I poured the greenish-yellowish rinse MEK into the jar with the naptha/xylene and it looks just like the solvents
look after I do xylene, naptha, MEK and acetone boils before extracting. And I already have that pseudo HCl in
the filter drying. It Looks Fine.

My mind tells me that VideoEditor has done it again. He has combined the weaknesses of a couple of solvents
with the strength of another, anticipated the timing and use, and combined several different concepts in ways
they have not been combined before. The use of naptha as a gakk solvent during the extraction of the pseudo
HCl by the IPA alcohol is a stroke of genius I would never have struck upon. The added benefit of using the
naptha to drive out the remnants of moisture from the IPA is brilliant. The yield leaves me with only one
thought, and that is why the hell I let him figure this out. Man, I wish I could have claimed I thought this one up.

VideoEditor deserves the Nobel Prize in foilant foiling and is hereby nominated for the position of Professor
Emeritus and Department Chairman, College of Extractomania, Hive University.

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