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Practical LSD Manufacture 70 simpler by recycling the solvents. Just because a solvent has been used once in a given stage of the process does not mean its useful lifetime is over. For example, the solvent used for defatting the crop is easily made as good as new by distilling it to free it of its load of fat. Other solvents are not so easily recovered for re-use because the procedure calls for the given solvent to be removed from the product by vacuum evaporation. In this case, the solvent can be collected in a cold trap placed along the vacuum line on its way to the vacuum source. If a pump is used to create the vacuum, such a trap is vital to prevent solvent vapors from getting into the pump oil, thereby ruining the lubrication and the vacuum created. A cold trap can be constructed of either glass or steel; it need only be large enough to hold the solvent collected, and airtight so as not to ruin the vacuum with leaks. This cold trap is then cooled down with dry ice during vacuum evaporations to condense the solvent vapors in the trap. The solvent recovered in the trap can be re-used in the given stage of the process from whence it came. I would not co-mingle recovered solvents from different stages. For example, chloroform from the alkaloid extraction of the crops should be kept for that usage, and not be used for LSD crystallization, because it will also contain some ammonia and methanol. The recovery of ether, for example, from method 2 of lysergic acid production, poses a special problem. This problem is the formation of explosive peroxides in ether during storage. Ether containing water and alcohol, as would be the case for this recovered solvent, does not form much peroxide. There is a possibility that dry ether can be made free of peroxides by shaking the ether with some 5% ferrous sulfate (FeSO4) solution in water prior to distilling. Failure to do this may expose the operator to a fiery explosion during distillation. Ice water flowing through the condenser, and an ice-chilled receiving flask, are required to get an efficient condensation of the ether during distillation. 11 Keeping Out Of Trouble 71 II Keeping Out Of Trouble The dangers of LSD manufacturing do not end with the possibility that the cooker may spill some of the stuff on himself and fry his brain. There is a much more malignant danger facing those who embark upon this course: Johnny Law. The conduit through which those shit-eating dogs travel to get to you is your associates. If you are cooking alone with no partners in crime, your safety has been improved immeasurably. Partners in crime are too easily turned against you and transformed into star witnesses. Don't deceive yourself by thinking that your friends would never do such a thing. This country is populated with sheeple who lick the boots of their masters at the drop of a hat. The added incentive of avoiding jail time turns these bleating sheeple into singing stool pigeons nearly every time. Along with partners in crime, one's customers for the product are a prime source of snitches. The first and foremost rule in contacts with one's customers is that they have no business knowing that you are cooking the product yourself. The reason for this, beyond their babbling their mouths to their friends, is that if they get themselves into trouble they then have a lot more leverage for cutting themselves a snitching bargain with the heat if they say that they can deliver up an LSD lab. More leverage for them turns into more time and freedom Practical LSD Manufacture 72 for this turncoat to work at setting you up, because the heat sees a bigger pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If all he has to offer to the heat is just another LSD connection, they will get frustrated with him if he does not immediately deliver on your demise, and will put his squealing butt in the slam where it belongs. Several further tactics are called for to protect yourself from treachery emanating from your customers. If the heat succeeds in turning your customer against you, they will first try to get themselves in on a transaction, and failing this, try to make what is called a "controlled buy" whereby thek traitor buys while they watch and maybe record. To foil such tactics, you must be in control of setting up transactions, not your customers. They do not call you to set up deals; in fact, it's best that they not even have your number, address or real name. Know well the schedules and habits of your customers, and simply call them with very short warning times of your arrival and readiness to do business. Third parties are not invited, wanted or allowed. If they don't have all the cash ready at hand, just front the remainder with an understanding of how long it will take to gather up the balance. Then return similarly unannounced to collect what is owed. By this I don't mean to come back in a couple hours to pick up the marked bills. Rather, the time frame must be sufficiently long so as to make a stake-out by the enemy a real pain and not worth their bother. Explicit telephone conversations with one's customers are a definite no-no, and such an understanding must be reached with them from the outset. Rather, the conversations should be friendly, filled with small talk, and mostly held to make sure the guy is home. Use of codewords and other such nonsense is for idiots. If one's customer breaks these pre-agreed-upon rules, it is cause for suspicion. The delivery machine of choice is a street-legal dirt bike. This vehicle is to be preferred because if the heat jumps you while on the way to a delivery, you can take off and travel routes they can't through backyards, ditches and cross-country, making a life-or-death drive for the nearest body of water. If you're in the desert you deserve what you 11 Keeping Out Of Trouble 73 get for living where people aren't meant to be. Once a body of water is reached, the contraband can then be disposed of. A proper excuse for fleeing is that you thought they looked like a bunch of assassins. With all the black-hooded ninja-wanna-be police these days, this is a most believable excuse. Setting up shop and getting chemicals is another source of exposure to the forces of our enemy, the state. See the "Love Letters from the Heat" section at the end of the book. Listed there are the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |
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