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Bluelighter
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Recrystallize and turning back into base again, except REAL FreeBase This time, not ghetto crack. Wouldn't this result in extremely pure product?
Oh, yeah, most definitely! Le Junk's method always looked really sharp to me (a non-chemist, but able to get the jist of his explanation), and I believe that yes, you do get a qualitatively better product.
The "melt in water/collect the oil/then dry" procedure is simply a quick and dirty way to rinse out some of the water-soluble "surface" gunk that has basically dried onto/been mixed in with the rock when it was first produced (that's my understanding). Like you say, "ghetto" (and proud of it, haha)
Where I lived back in the day, people used to do the old melt & dry whenever they took a blast & could tell the stuff was too diluted to ever get the sought-after master blaster -- the good, concentrated hit, achieving the "ringer" -- no matter how big of a hit you took. Too "bakingsodafied," mixed with too much other shit (from what a couple pro cookers once told me, you don't even wanna know what else they use!).
Same principle as requiring a very particular kind of pipe -- basically it can't let in any excess air, and has to have a diameter within a narrow range. Bad pipes don't allow concentrated enough smoke, no matter the hit size, for tolerant users.
So everyone would down-and-dirty-hot water-rinse the h2o-soluble gunk out, wait a minute for the oil to dry, and hit again. Just remove the unbound, soluble adultertants that are "stuck" to/mixed with the product by strictly mechanical means (that's my best interpretation, being a complete non-chemist). Almost inevitably it would be better. BUT one can only improve it so far with this method (a second wash won't help).
So:
Win for Le Junk (& caseface99). Unless you're lazy, unskilled, or fiending NOW NOW NOWNOW FASTER FASTERNOWNOW...

Know 'm sayin?
p.s. careful folks, a slightly more concentrated hit of crack can be exponentially more powerful, and take you by surprise. have a healthy level of worry. your brain can "pop" and you end up in real trouble (that's the technical diagnosis)