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Market => Rumor mill => Topic started by: tinytim on January 26, 2012, 08:24 pm
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I am working on a definitive review of all the major coke vendors here. Originally the purpose of this review was so I could make my own buying decisions, but I'm thinking about sharing it with the community if I can find a way to make it worth my while.
I have coke in my hands from 9 of the largest vendors here.
Anyhow - does anybody have any ideas for what they would like to know about the vendors?
Here's what I'm thinknig:
1) Shipping comments
2) Delivery time
3) Appearance
4) Communication
5) Objective quality tests
#5 is the doozie - it's what nobody has done before. What I'll be doing is finding a proper method to purify cocaine and then report back on what vendor has the highest percentage of pure coke, and also best value per dollar (pure coke per dollar).
This is expensive and difficiult, there are about 5 methods to try and I'm going to waste a bunch trying it.
Does anybody have any suggesitons on either foolproof testing methods, or specific things they'd like to know about the vendors?
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erm...isn't there already a multi-page thread on the best cocaine vendors on SR?
I would post your findings in that thread, your criteria for judging looks good though..not sure if "apperance" matters but yeah go for it..
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I think someone needs to send samples for column chromatography. This will show purity and the levels of levamisole.
http://www.ecstasydata.org/results.php?start=0&search_field=all&s=cocaine
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I've been working on this since I last posted. I've wasted several grams of coke trying to figure out how to purify it for this purpose (DOH!). I stepped back for a week and started studying. There is a book called "Cocaine handbook" which was helpful. I've also found a sympathetic chemical engineer who will guide me. He doesn't want to so much as see the stuff, but he's happy to provide knowledge.
The first step I was having problems with in measuring purity is to convert the cocaine hcl to base cocaine and then separate it. I was able to do the conversion but I was not able to separate it. My chemical engineer friend helped explain a great many things:
The ammonia precipitation method works by changing the pH. I had questions about the pH at which this happens and how to separate the base cocaine from the water/ammonia mixture. My question was "at what pH will the cocaine break down in to its components?". He didnt know the answer, but he explained that each time I add a certain amount of ammonia a certain amount of cocaine hcl will convert to base cocaine. Until that stops happening then I do not need to worry about damaging the cocaine.
What he suggested is if my concern is damaging the cocaine what I can do is preciptate it as discussed, then remove the precipitated cocaine from the bottom using a pipette. This cocaine is undamaged. Then add more ammonia to the remaining amount to see if more precipitates. I can continue along this path until no more precipitation occurs (meaning all cocaine hcl has been converted to base cocaine). I like his idea, it's safe, wont damage any coke, and allows me to get good measurements. The problem after that would be evaporating the ammonia and water. He explained how to do that to me but it's for another post.
Te next thing we discussed was the idea of using ether to dissolve the coke (as was done in days past, before richard pryor hurt himself and people got scared). You cant by ether directly anymore, but you can buy starter fluid which is a mixture of ether and hexane. We talked a bit about ways to separate this. He had some ideas but I changed topics because it was looking like an unnecessary step considering the above paragraph.
I'll check back in after the next experiment!