[Vendor Review] [Nucleus] USAmp, 2g Amphetamine Phosphate (>96% recovery after anhydrous acetone wash)

DETAILED CHECKBOX
Vendor Name/Marketplace: USAmp / Nucleus Marketplace
Product/s reviewed: 2g Amphetamine Phosphate
International?: USA
Vendor requires FE?: No
Price before shipping: $55
Shipping cost: A few bucks, I can't remember. US Priority w/ tracking.
Customer Service: pick one below with an "x" like this: [x]
[x]+5 Superb: Polite, prompt, ensures satisfaction
[ ]+4 Good: Professional, exhibits customer care
[ ]+3 Satisfactory: Adequate responses, resolved issue
[ ]+2 Marginal: Subpar communication, partial resolution
[ ]+1 Bad: Poor communication, no resolution
[ ]+0 Awful: Abusive responses, no resolution
Product Quality: pick one below
[ ]+5 Pharmaceutical purity - 100% lab-tested pure
[x]+4.5 Highest purity - highly potent
[ ]+4 Mostly pure - potent
[ ]+3 Minor cut or impurity - strong
[ ]+2 Cut and/or impure - medium to weak
[ ]+1 Almost entirely cut - very weak
[ ]+0 Possibly bunk - no effect
Processing Speed: pick one below
[x]+5 Processed & marked shipped in 24hrs
[ ]+4 Processed & marked shipped in 48 hrs
[ ]+3 Processed & marked shipped in 72 hrs
[ ]+2 Package is late
[ ]+1 Package is very late
[ ]+0 Never received package
Price Value: pick one below
[x]+5 Excellent - great value & low cost
[ ]+4 Moderate - worthy value & fair cost
[ ]+3 At-market - neither good nor bad
[ ]+2 Below-market - so-so value, high cost
[ ]+1 Exorbitant - low value, excessive cost
[ ]+0 Rip-off - little-to-no value, unjustified cost
Stealth & OpSec: check all that apply
[x]+1 Vacuum-sealed
[x]+1 Mylar/non-porous container
[x]+1 Decoy/misdirection
[x]+1 Low package profile
[x]+1 Good OpSec/PGP
TOTAL: (98%)

REVIEW: Honestly, I feel like I should keep this guy a secret, but I use ampetamines for functional purposes, so I won't be ordering more than a couple times a year. At the time I ordered this (May), USAmp only had a couple dozen purchases and I was hesistant since all the reviews were generic and I hate trying new vendors because of poor mailing OpSec issues, but I am beyond exceptionally pleased with my decision to go with USAmp over my former go-to guy. I decided on USAmp because he offered the phosphate salt (the sulfate salt from my old vendor made me smell terrible, like a skunk that shit out a rotten egg that hatched a garlic clove; thankfully, this phosphate formulation did not make me sulfur-stinky) and because if the purity was up-to-snuff, I'd make out better $/gram than drying out paste. The product arrived within 60 hours of placing the order (he has Willy Wonka's "Golden Ticket" as far as shipping locations is concerned) and my "remote" location from a sorting hub usually means waiting 4 days for 3-day US Priority. The stealth was top-notch and included a "personally customized" feature which I will not go into detail about, but suffice to say would act as a means of misdirection if the pack was opened. The package included a tracking label and the return address was discreet.

The product itself came in overweight and was an fine white powder (damn near powdered sugar fine) with some of the more dense chunks you typically get when drying a block. It chopped beautifully. Getting this up my nose was a damn chore and it felt like Hell fire in my nasal cavity. I did an anhydrous acetone wash to see if it cleaned up any:

  1. Baked ~5g magnesium sulfate (epsom salt) at 450F for 2hrs.

  2. Transfered to glass flask and added ~200mL Klean-strip brand acetone from Home Depot.

  3. Shaked vigoursly and let sit overnight.

  4. In 100mL beaker, added 80mL anhydrous acetone to amphetamine (I know, I only needed 10mL/g, but I did this volume becaues of the vessel shape and I was decanting).

  5. Swirled to thoroughly mix. Let sit covered for 1hr; occassionally swirling to remix.

  6. Let amphetamine settle out.

  7. Decanted acetone.

  8. Spread paste on glass pane and let dry on a seedling warmer mat under a 200W heat lamp; hot, but just below sinter temperature (145F).

  9. Recovery was 96.02%, of which about 1% (~25mg of loss) was due to amphetamine sticking to the beaker and an imperfect decant. Despite this small loss, I still recovered more than the 2g I had paid for and lost a total of about 103mg in weight. I am very pleased with this.

Did it clean up? Well, it's mysteriously a lot smoother on my nose. I'd hazard a guess that whatever that tiny impurity was, it's what was causing the wildfire inferno in my sinus cavity. Don't get me wrong, it still burns, but at least I can get it up there now without a visit to the local burn clinic. Synth byproduct? My imagination? Who knows, but I doubt an active cut.

As far as US domestic amphetamine supplies is concerned, this guy is #1 hands down. I'm loving the fact that the phosphate salt doesn't have me sweating out turd purfume.

Edit: Added vendor name to vendor field. Whoops.


Comments


[6 Points] rotting_log:

Oooo this piques my interest


[4 Points] entactoBob:

Thanks for the comprehensive review. Very detailed without being amp-fueled-wall-of-text-esque. Also, thanks for using my review template :)

Btw, regarding the burning sensation dying down post-acetone-wash, I would speculate that the chemist is using an excess of phosphoric acid in an aqueous solution for crystallization, rather than calculating the molar ratio & using the exact amount of acid necessary. H2O would be evaporated, probably rapidly, leaving dry amphetamine phosphate. It is therefore likely that during crystal formation, & particularly if there is expedited drying, a minor amount of excess phosphoric acid is getting trapped inside the crystals.

So phosphoric acid would be the impurity then, and this certainly would account for the burning sensation. But this is just a conjecture. Regardless, thanks again for the wonderfully detailed review.


[3 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

It was probably a bit of excess phosphoric acid. Its not a particularly nasty acid, its used in soft drinks quite a lot.

I guess the manufacturer extracts the freebase amphetamine into something like toluene, then washed is out with portions of phosphoric acid like we do with meth and portions of HCl.

Each portion is let out of the separating funnel and the chemist dips his finger in and touches it across the front of his tongue.

When the bitter taste of amphetamines begins to subside and the sharp vinegar taste of an acid appears in its place, the neutral end-point has been reached. If he overshot, it could sting a bit


[2 Points] ADopelessHopefiend:

Is the purity of the original product clean enough for IV? and you stated that he sold "amp phosphate salt" implying it's not the freebase paste yes?


[2 Points] None:

Jesus fucking Christ is everyone on here a chemist?!?! Love the review and the explanations. Thank you OP!


[1 Points] None:

Oh look another one of these unbelievably phenomenal reviews

Where are all the well written bad reviews....?


[1 Points] 1ugly:

Well, I'd say, pictures of the wash process or it never happened.


[1 Points] DNM_reddit_account:

I love this guy. Would you trust him in an off-market (FE) deal?