DETAILED WRITE UP BY Chips OF THE PROCESS DONE TO MAKE THE "MERCK" QUALITY PHARMACEUTICAL COCAINE I POSTED ABOUT AND SENT SAMPLES OUT FOR THE COMMUNITY TO REVIEW...
This was done mainly to do this write up and pass on as much information to the Community as possible about the process so you guys will be able to do this yourself and experience the ultimate in Cocaine HCL...outside of a Bottle Of "Merck" Pharmaceutical Cocaine!!!
Links to Pics are at end of Step 4 and Step 5
Background to this write-up:
I came onto the DNM because of the hassles that go along with sourcing product at the street level. Once here I tried a few vendors, MK and UCK to start. Their products were quite possibly the worst, impure, heavily cut, waste of money and most of all dangerous I have ever come across in the cocaine arena. If you thought any of their products were good, I would say you did not receive what I did or you simply know nothing about cocaine. After those purchases, I decided to go to the AB forum to see what people were saying in the cocaine chats. What I found were customers vetting vendors and describing their products, along with random nonsense. Then I saw a post by OC that was written as a review. Naturally, I was intrigued and read it. After some time, I came on the forums and met LineKing after doing some purification runs. We chatted about random shit for a while then came up with a plan for the following post, which is lengthy but very informative and kinda fun to read.
I used to purify a specified quantity out of bricks and then was paid with the product I made. My pay depended on the quality. I then decided that I would place some orders and start working on the recipe from memory and making some adjustments to attempt to obtain better results. After a bunch of failures, I came up with the process below which I would not perform unless using 3.5 grams of freebase. Smaller batches need to be fine tuned yet. The most consistent results, I have obtained, are done following the amounts scattered below (write them down as you come across them).
This process, done on a 1 - 2 gram level is not recommended. I will outline the recipe shortly. You can do the process on a small 1-2 gram amount but you must have the proper container to crystallize in. Onto the purification process.
While this was my (LineKing,Lineking69,lineking) idea and I financed it..., My good friend Chips gets all the credit for his knowledge and hard work in making this happen!!!
I purchased 3.5 Grams of c_s "Bolivian" (EC tested as Levamisole and all other Active Cut Free!!!) that I had c_s send directly to Chips...
and c_s was kind enough to throw us an extra 1.5 grams...so this was done on 5 grams total...
The 5 grams returned 3.5 grams of Cocaine Base...which was crystallized back to Cocaine HCL yielding 3.05 Grams total of Cocaine HCL!!!
Step 1 -
buy the best cocaine you can find. No cheap shit. I will continue to recommend C_S for all cocaine purchases based on the consistent results and purity level of product. I will not recommend any other vendor on any DNM site until I have dealt with at least three bacthes.
Step 2, Equipment - You are going to need:
1 - 100 mL pyrex beaker 2 - 50 mL pyrex beaker 3 - package of glass stir rods 4 - glass eye dropper 5 - 2 glass jars with screw lid (put water in and shake to test leakage first, we want no leaking) The jar should also be a decent size, about 16 oz, and long and narrow. A tall jar makes the ether extract easier. 6 - funnel (glass or any non reagent grade material) 7 - filter (not coffee here people, lab grade quantitative filter that are "medium") 8 - glass watcher (this is the dome shaped glass disk that sits on top of the beaker, the name escapes me at the moment) 9 - A large container w/ secure lid that fits the 100 mL beaker and glass watcher with some room to spare 10 - dehydrate silica packets 11 - large eye dropper (for extracting the small use organic solvents) 12 - Glass Amber bottle with eyedropper (about 50 mL for size) 13 - Graduated cylinder (glass) 14 - Glass Dram Vial
**** get glass for everything you can get glass for***
14 - 2 reagent squeeze bottles with the long tube attachment (acetone and pet ether will go in here) 15 - electrical tape 15 - scissors 16 - respirator mask 17 - rubber gloves 18 - reagent bottle with dropper attachment
I know it is a lot of junk, but you need it. You can substitue mason jars and other household items, but there is no substitute for the 100 mL beaker. You need this.
Step 3 - Solvents to obtain
All solvents are lab grade or ACS. DO NOT use anything else that is from Home Depot. You will get subpar results. and if you get good results, please post it.
1 - pet ether 35 - 60 boiling point (you need a lot of this, but for the recipe a 500 mL will do) 2 - Lab Grade Anhydrous Acetone (this is important & no Epsom salt nonsense, that changes the acetone) 3 - Hydrochloric acid (NOT MURIATIC (POOl) Acid... Muriatic Acid has a lot of impurities and is why your cocaine is yellow, most of the time) 4 - Methanol 99% 5 - Ammonium Hydroxide 10% (make sure it is only ammonium and water - again get lab grade and 29.8% Ammonium Hydroxide is ok too...as long as you dilute it to 5%) 6 - Distilled water (NO TAP WATER, only distilled. you don't want to sniff fluoride which is in all Tap Water now do you!!!?)
Step 4 - The A/B extraction
This process is quite easy but time consuming. Make sure you have enough time to finish this from start to finish.
1 - Dilute the 10% ammonium. This is to help with pH control. Mainly so you don't spike the pH to high and cause a loss in purity. I like 5% ammonium. To achieve this we use distilled water to dilute down the 5%. Put the diluted solution in a bottle with the dropper attachment.
2 - Next, dissolve 5 grams in a glass jar with about 60 mL of Distilled water and stir until dissolved. Use boiling water to help the HCL dissolve completely in water. Just swirl the jar in the hot water to heat up the water inside.
3 - set up your funnel and a filter into the other empty jar and filter the dissolved cocaine water into the clean jar. Let all the water filter before adding more
4 - The jar SHOULD not be half full after the first filter. You will then add about how much water you need to fill the jar to a little over half way. This will gather any cocaine water stuck in the filter from the first pass.
5 - take the stir rod and while stirring, drop in a drop or two of your diluted ammonium. You will see a white cloud appear and clear up pretty quick. That's ok, stir about 20 more seconds and add another drop or two. Repeat this until you see the white cloud stay.
6 - you can either continue to stir to cause the freebase to fall out faster or you can let it chill and it will fall out a little slower. What you choose, make sure you always allow the freebase to fall out after a thick white cloud is formed because you don't want to raise the pH too high. Remember you only want cocaine, a super high pH can cause other cuts to freebase out as well. The pH level is going to be in the freebase and eventually the pet ether.
7 - Continue the above steps until you get a build-up of freebase.
8 - Add pet ether to fill up the jar and secure lid tightly. Shake for a minute or two and allow to settle.
9 - Use your glass eye dropper to extract the ether and drip into your glass baking dish. leave a little bit of ether in the jar so you don't grab any water. Add more ether to clean out the jar before repeating about steps for another extraction.
10 - It is important you understand that this process is not complete until you add a drop of dilute ammonium and no white cloud appears. It is best to determine this when there is no freebase in the jar. So always check because the ether will clear up the liquid once you get all the freebase out.
11 - drop the ether into a glass dish as you have seen in LK's reviews and allow to evap. A fan set on low helps this process complete faster. If you use a heater fan, keep the temp at room temperature. Pet ether boils at 35-60 C.
12 - once all the base is extract, no white clouds happen anymore and the ether has evaporated, collect the freebase from the glass dish. A razor will accomplish this nicely. Allow the freebase to dry under a heat lamp or grow light (homedepot has bulbs and a light fixture for about 12 dollars. The freebase needs to be completely dry before crystallizing. To store the base, use a glass jar in a plastic bag with silica packets.
PICS OF A/B Extraction:
Step 5 - crystallization
1 - First you need to make your 2:1 HCL/methanol solution. This is easy. measure 10 mL of HCL and 20 mL of methanol and mix them into your amber bottle with eye dropper.
2 - have your acetone in a large 8 oz squeeze bottle ready to go.
3 - set up your filter and funnel going into your 100 mL Pyrex beaker.
4 - weight out 3.5 grams of freebase in a dram vial and add 30 mL of acetone. Stir freebase until all dissolved. You will see some stuff like cotton fibers and other small things floating around because that is what is in the air. don't worry we will get this out along with anything that doesn't dissolve or should dissolve but didn't.
5 - pour the dram vial into filter and allow all to drip into Pyrex beaker. measure out another 25 mL of acetone and pour into filter making sure to saturate all the filter without pouring over the filter. Pouring straight acetone in will ensure you get all the cocaine that has dried to the filter to dissolve again and end up in your beaker. Measure out another 10 mL of acetone and do the same thing.
6 - next measure out 2.5 mL + about 4 drops of 2:1 HCL/methanol solution. Add acetone until 10 mL. DO NOT add this to the filter or beaker yet. Pour into your 50 mL beaker. Now remember how much acetone we have scaled out. 30 + 25 + 10 + 7.5 = 72.5 mL. We need 80 mLs total. Measure out another 2.5 mLs. Measure another 7.5 mLs acetone. This is to collect any HCL/methanol solution that may be stuck in the cylinder from the first scale. Add this acetone to you 50 mL beaker with HCL/methanol and acetone mix. To recap you should have your 100mL beaker with about 70 mls of acetone and dissolved freebase & your 50 mL beaker with 17.5 mLs of acetone and HCL/methanol. You are ready to add the two together, but first we have to lay down some ground rules
1 - under no circumstances are you to move the beaker around in any way after you add the two together
2 - You have to be operating in stable climate of some sort. A room that doesn't change temps dramatically or often in a single day. Also, try to pick a room
that is as dry as possible. You must also, do this in another container or make sure you have a vent going to the outside world, otherwise you will have
the acetone smell lingering around for a day or two.
3 - You will now obtain the virtue of patients for the next 4 to 5 days.
4 - You will not substitute any other chemicals as a "substitute". There are none for this process. O, and nothing lower than lab grade. Don't blame me when
you get a shit product. Remember, "garbage in, garbage out".
5 - There is no eyeballing this. You guess on a measurement, you risk the yield. In fact, you deviate from the method much, you risk yield and quality.
6 - Don't be upset the first time you do this. Chances of a fuck are very high. I jacked up the first A/B run I did by discarding the water wayyyy too soon.
I ended up throwing away a bunch of coke by doing that.
7 - Read the process again and break down the numbers - know what you are going to be doing here and plan it out.
7 - Ok, now that you have an understanding of the mindset you need, we can finish the process. The total time needed for crystallization will vary depending on a lot of factors. I can say that the time needed to complete crystallization should be about a day. So that is a full day or so of undisturbed crystallization. No stirring, adding anything or moving from one spot to another. It needs to stay in one location.
8 - Now, swirl both beakers in the same direction at the same time. I found that two glass stir rods stirring at the same time was more efficient than swirling for me. You can do what you are comfortable with, but the point is to mix the liquids and disperse the solvents and dissolved freebase.
9 - once stirred in the same direction, pour the HCL/methanol solution into the 100 mL beaker while the two beaker still had swirling liquid. You want to add them after 3 or 4 seconds after you stop stirring. You are aiming for a not too fast and not too slow speed. The goal is to have both solutions mix together but then immediately settle after the addition. This is a hard step because this is what affects the appearance and can results in really good product, or product that has too much acid and solvent trapped.
The appearance suffers because you stirred too much causing super small but uniform crystals to grow and your yield will be quite lower. There will be too much acid and solvents in
the finished product because you stirred too little. Large crystals are from uneven distribution of the solutions and solvent/acid will get trapped between the large crystal formations,
but the product will look very nice. Either way, you want the middle of the road. not tiny crystals and not large ones.
10 - After adding the two solutions together, stir in opposite direction of the direction the swirl was in, do about 3 360 degree stirs at a slightly fast slow motion. Stop the stir in the middle of the beaker and lift the glass rod straight out of the solution. Cover with watch glass and watch the magic happen. REMEMBER, DO NOT move the beaker at any time. The only reason you move the beaker is because the cops are at the door. Otherwise, let sit. REMEMBER the temperature and humidity conditions I mentioned above. Also, you can set up a container with silica packets inside that has a "as close as possible to" an airtight lid and add the solutions to the beaker inside the container. You will have enough time to snap the lid on. Don't put the lid on later, that is enough movement to knock the crystals off the wall of the glass. The wall crystals need to grow in size.
11 - About a day later, maybe sooner (This part you will need to judge on some of the photos or just experience) you will need to stir the crystals in the solution. Stir the crystals quite well making sure to get the bottom clean. Then allow to sit for another couple hours. If there is no crystal growth on the walls or anything visible as being new crystals, you are ready to filter.
12 - Filtering is quite simple. First, you will need to wash the crystals in fresh, cold acetone. You will do this twice. Begin by placing the stir rod on top of the beaker and resting in the pour lip sticking straight out about 2 inches. Slowly pour the solution w/ crystals into the filter but not the crystals. You do the first pour after allowing to sit for at least 20 minutes. Next you add roughly 50 mL of acetone and stir like you are doing an acetone wash. Essentially after that first pour you are doing an acetone wash. Pour off that acetone in the same manner.
13 - After the crystals have rested with the second acetone addition, pour the crystals into the filter this time. You will use the hose on the bottle to squirt acetone into the beaker to push the crystals out and into the filter. this is like a third wash. You may end up using 50 mL of acetone to get it all out. Once all out, allow the acetone to drip through completely. Next, use your fingers (always wear gloves) to fold the filter down and squeeze the acetone out.
14 - put a paper clip on the folded end of the paper to seal and allow to sit out for at least two days in the open air. Refer to OC's onion site to see the empanada folding in the cocaine handbook by David Lee.
15 - 2 days later... The best part of the process if everything goes well. Unpack-age your product and examine. You can indulge if you like, but it is better when allowed to sit in a amber glass jar for another day or so.
PICS OF CRYSTALLIZATION:
PICS Of FINISHED COCAINE HCL AFTER A-B and Crystallization
*Always remember to wear safety gear and handle the chemicals with care, don't spill or leave caps open. Always use electric tape to seal the caps on bottle and any places where fumes can escape. Make sure everything is dry and clean. Know what you are going to do each step of the way. Do the process in chunks. **
**** This write-up is for the communities knowledge and is my friend Chips work...If you sell, this you have no right to claim any of this knowledge as your own*****
Stay Safe Everyone! I (Chips) will be around for the Connoisseurs who try this with any questions! I will also be doing reviews as well!
Chemist here, first off, there is a bit of misinformation in here and some steps are oddly and unnecessarily specific, but in general, yes, it can work, assuming the solubility calculations are done right. I've never worked with cocaine specifically, but I synth MDMA and a few psychedelics for a living, and spend lots of my free time studying organic chemistry and figuring out how to make the process even more efficient and fuck around and experiment with new and fun routes.
But, a procedure like this is extremely easy to fuck up for the non-chemist. Honestly, my advice is that you find a chemist friend (who actually knows what's he doing) and have him do this for/with you.
Seriously. For example, you could think to yourself "who cares about the grade" and buy some solvents or HCl that has extremely carcinogenic impurities like benzene from Home Depot. Or if you heat with an open flame, acetone vapors can ignite extremely easily, and they will.
The problem with this procedure, or any other one that's aimed for non-chemists to perform by themselves, is that they aren't aware of the mistakes that the OP hasn't mentioned here. There are so many little details that can wreck shit up hard that you didn't even thought of.
For example, you think you can cut a corner in a step of the procedure, but in reality you may accidentaly severely contaminate your product with some nasty impurities you didn't even know were there, rendering it even worse than it was just because you thought a certain step can be done in a slightly different way.
A great example that people can relate to is in Breaking Bad where Victor tells Gus he knows the "recipe" and Walt says: "You're not flipping hamburgers here, pal. What happens when you get a bad barrel of precursor? Or how would you even know it? And what happens in the summer when the humidity rises and your product goes cloudy? How would you guard against that?"
If you really wanna do this yourself, spend a month learning the basics of organic chemistry like solubility, solvent polarity, how distillation works, single-solvent and multi-solvent recrystallization, hot and cold filtration, acid/base extractions etc. Understand how it works, then buy a simple distillation kit on eBay and a few borosilicate beakers, a graduated cylinder for measuring liquid volume, a lab stand and clamps, a simple glass funnel, some filter paper, a cheap hot plate for cooking (no open flames or sparking electronics for heating under any circumstances) and then practice distilling shit like water just to get the feel of it, etc. All this can be bought for under $100 online.
Practice recrystallization with baking soda and distilled water. Master the shit out of it and understand exactly how it works, not just how to do it. Practice recrystallizing for example potassium carbonate (aka. potash) with water and ethanol, as you pour in ethanol drop-wise in your saturated aqueous solution, just seeing how white powder magically precipitates out will help you develop that "feel" for how things work.
Then obtain your solvents and distill all of them at their boiling points while discarding anything that comes over at other temperatures. Also take into account that some solvents, like ethanol for example, don't boil normally like water, but get superheated and then "bump", which can burn your whole room down if they bump out through your vacuum adapter and hot 80C vapors reach an open flame or a spark source in the corner of your room, for example.
This shit is no joke. There's a reason why chemistry is one of the most dangerous fields to mess with even when you're a chemist, not to mention when you aren't and you intend to snort the product.
In any case, educate yourself much more than just reading this post before even thinking of attempting this. Then you'll be able to purify any compound in any amount, not just 3.5g of cocaine as this "recipe" is specific to that. And you'll lose way less of the product by doing it right, doing less washings but with right solvents, saving the filtrates after washings and very carefully recrystallizing those too and doing multi-solvent recrystalizations to fully separate out the junk from the product in an even more efficient way.
Or just find some chem student who can help you with this and pay him $20 to do it for you. In reality, this is no small project and unless you snort coke fucking 20 times a month, this is not worth your time.
You can try to follow this procedure, but like OP said, chances are you'll fuck up some small, seemingly irrelevant detail and waste both solvents and the product, and a lot of money on all the materials. And if you're lucky (or skilled), your solvents won't spontaneously ignite and you won't snort something even worse than what you started with ;)
Damn, that was quite a rant lol, sorry for a wall of text, I'm just bored here at the lab dicking around while waiting for a reaction to complete