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I’m sorry to make so many really simplistic posts - in fact I can’t really believe iv come this far without knowing some of this stuff but hey, live and learn eh?
So, what grease are you guys using for your joints?
iv been looking up vacuum grease and it seems to be crazy expensive - one of the only tubes I saw on eBay that seemed to be the sort of product I need was like £60 a tube…and I’m not even sure it is the correct stuff….
It is for the joints under reflux using ethanol as a solvent - for the moment but f knows what I’ll end up refluxing…well, I mainly do know actually. Pretty much phenethylamines, tryptamines (although not as much refluxing with that) and psychedelic amphetamines (probably not as many though as they tend to be SUPER long lasting!)
Im about to perform a nitroaldol/ Henry RXN on 2,5-DMOBA using ethlenediamine as a catalyst - although not hugely relevant to my question! Sort of…
It’s one of those questions that really will be used for any time I do distillations or refluxes….
I remember reading practical MDMA manufacture by Strike? Think it’s strike at least…may have been uncle festers book but one of the more notorious clandestine manufacture books said to use Vaseline but as far as I could tell when I was simply distilling ethanol (with a fairly low BP) you could see it was melting so I don’t know why he suggested it!
Maybe he just meant for the vacuum hose/nipple joints instead - I really haven’t read it since then!
Anyway I wondered what you guys use who aren’t working at a proper lab…I say ‘proper’ meaning registered with everything you need WITHOUT having to buy and risk your freedom to do so!
Actually tbf, if I can buy it and it’s cheap,; if it’s used in actual labs that’s probably better, there are some things us mere mortals can’t simply buy though!
So, what grease are you guys using for your joints?
iv been looking up vacuum grease and it seems to be crazy expensive - one of the only tubes I saw on eBay that seemed to be the sort of product I need was like £60 a tube…and I’m not even sure it is the correct stuff….
It is for the joints under reflux using ethanol as a solvent - for the moment but f knows what I’ll end up refluxing…well, I mainly do know actually. Pretty much phenethylamines, tryptamines (although not as much refluxing with that) and psychedelic amphetamines (probably not as many though as they tend to be SUPER long lasting!)
Im about to perform a nitroaldol/ Henry RXN on 2,5-DMOBA using ethlenediamine as a catalyst - although not hugely relevant to my question! Sort of…
It’s one of those questions that really will be used for any time I do distillations or refluxes….
I remember reading practical MDMA manufacture by Strike? Think it’s strike at least…may have been uncle festers book but one of the more notorious clandestine manufacture books said to use Vaseline but as far as I could tell when I was simply distilling ethanol (with a fairly low BP) you could see it was melting so I don’t know why he suggested it!
Maybe he just meant for the vacuum hose/nipple joints instead - I really haven’t read it since then!
Anyway I wondered what you guys use who aren’t working at a proper lab…I say ‘proper’ meaning registered with everything you need WITHOUT having to buy and risk your freedom to do so!
Actually tbf, if I can buy it and it’s cheap,; if it’s used in actual labs that’s probably better, there are some things us mere mortals can’t simply buy though!