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mewrox99
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Pictures of your home lab
Show off your home lab.
Here is mine. It's in my laundry as a temp setup before I get there spare attic room.
   
[Edited on 11-6-2010 by mewrox99]
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JohnWW
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Mewrox, thanks for sharing, although you obviously need a lot more equipment, especially distillation apparatus and analytical instruments, and many
more reagents, before you can do any really serious chemistry. Oh, and I hope that the corrupt New Zealand Pigs, who oppress us, do not recognize the
scenes depicted in your photos, possibly using Google-Earth, and use them as evidence to concoct an excuse to raid you on the pretext of making drugs!
[Edited on 11-6-10 by JohnWW]
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entropy51
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JohnWorryWart,
Have you taken your galantamine today?
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| Quote: | | although you obviously need a lot more equipment, especially distillation apparatus and analytical instruments, and many more reagents, before you
can do any really serious chemistry. |
Don't be so hard on the guy, he's made a good start and thats more than many of us have done!
| Quote: | | Oh, and I hope that the corrupt New Zealand Pigs, who oppress us, do not recognize the scenes depicted in your photos, possibly using Google-Earth,
and use them as evidence to concoct an excuse to raid you on the pretext of making drugs |
You're being ridiculous John, like they can see in his laundry room from google earth with any detail(/at all).
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Skyjumper
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I'l pop a few pics on monday of the lab I work in. Full fume hood and 4 8foot tall cabinets filled with chems.
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mewrox99
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Yeah. My lab is really new. I only made it a week and a half ago. I'm getting some more reagents in the mail. Sodium Acetate, Strontium Nitrate,
Barium Nitrate, Potassium Permanganate and I'll be making some sodium metasilicate some time soon.
[Edited on 12-6-2010 by mewrox99]
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JohnWW
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Where in New Zealand are you buying those reagents, Mewrox99? Do they ask any awkward questions?
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mewrox99
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I so far haven't bought my reagent from real companies.
Trademe, OTC sources, sometimes if it's rare I'll beg my chem teacher who often gives me stuff.
On trademe, countingsheep1 will sell you stuff through email if you have bought alot from him.
Clarks Products LTD sell to individuals but it's bulk technical grade.
HMS-Beagle sell internationally
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psychokinetic
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So countingsheep1 is reliable? That's good to hear. He has a lot I like the look of.
*uses his csi skills to see the reflection in the beakers, to see your eyes which can't be made out, but somehow I can see the reflection of your
outdoor area. I then take that image and scan it into my computer arbitrarily, push a few buttons seemingly at random and watch as a million images
flash on my screen for no reason, as there's no point in downloading all the wrong answers. I then send out a team of analysts who really have no
power over you, and one ominously pulls off his sunglasses and makes a bad joke*
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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mewrox99
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Quote: Originally posted by psychokinetic  | So countingsheep1 is reliable? That's good to hear. He has a lot I like the look of.
*uses his csi skills to see the reflection in the beakers, to see your eyes which can't be made out, but somehow I can see the reflection of your
outdoor area. I then take that image and scan it into my computer arbitrarily, push a few buttons seemingly at random and watch as a million images
flash on my screen for no reason, as there's no point in downloading all the wrong answers. I then send out a team of analysts who really have no
power over you, and one ominously pulls off his sunglasses and makes a bad joke* |
Yeah, Countingsheep1 is reliable I've bought many items from him although at times he can be a wee-bit slow.
Anyway lol wut
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I have been slowly working on it for a while.
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=12868#...
Current Picture:
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/1986/labncurrent.jpg
I put all the equipment that would fit into the little filing-shelf by the fume hood. I want to get some nice lockers for the large equipments so its
not laying on shelves exposed to the dust. I am a bit lacking in the reagents department too  .
The acids are stored in the tupaware container under the desk, in case a bottle magically breaks.
But... CL-20, I'm coming for you!
[Edited on 12-6-2010 by Chainhit222]
The practice of storing bottles of milk or beer in laboratory refrigerators is to be strongly condemned encouraged
-Vogels Textbook of Practical Organic Chemistry
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mewrox99
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My collection of chems has grown quite bit. And this doesn't include the oxidants and I have ordered some metals (Al, Mg, Zn)
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Oh good, with those you will be able to do your own organic reductions using H2 generated by the action of an acid on those metals, and make (using
organic halides) your own Grignard reagents for additive organic syntheses.
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mewrox99
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Still very inexperienced in O-Chem (I'm only 14)
I'll be making some ethanediamide soon, since that seems simple enough.
Maybe at the start of next year I'll get some distillation equipment, and a magnetic stirrer
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IF you don' mind me asking which route do you plan on taking to getto EDA? Iv had my sights on this for a while and was curious as to hw you want t go
about it. My idea was to brominate ethylene glycol and pass the Dibromoethane into and excess of (aq)NH3 to yeild EDA*(HBr)2. If you feel its off
topic PM me.
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
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fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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Finally making some progress on this damn thing. Dig the home made test tube rack? lol
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entropy51
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Fire extinguisher: Check
Safety Goggles: Check
You get a thumbs up, my man.
How's the ventilation?
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Thanks  .
Ventilation is pretty poor. That's my next step before buying a vacuum I believe. I want to do something like a fume-hood or cabinet. I'm just not
sure what I'm going to have to do to get that constructed safely. The nearest door/window to the outside is maybe 10 feet away so that's not too far
thankfully. I want to do something nice though, like some kind of hockey court glass or something, but that might be wallet draining. Adequate fan's
are seemingly expensive as well.
I mostly need to do some research though  . Some great threads on fume-hoods on
here.
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entropy51
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Fume hoods have to be fancy to meet official safety requirements. They need not be so fancy to actually take the fumes outside, especially if you
don't work with HCN or phosgene. It doesn't take a lot to remove HCl, NH3 or halogens if you stick to a small scale. If you have a blower that
provides adequate air flow you're 90% of the way there. Just avoid ether and carbon disulfide in anything but the best hood. Safety is more a
mindset than fancy equipment.
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I've just moved house, and I have a garage 
Still setting it up. Need to get the fusebox to stop pinging so I can have a stable power source, and perhaps remove the net curtains and put some
blinds up.
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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entropy51
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Garage good! Blinds even better!
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psychokinetic
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Yeah, my 6th form chemistry teacher showed me well what happens to light curtains in a chemistry lab....
If I get off my arse today, I might actually contribute to the topic of this thread, and show pictures of what was already set up in the garage before
I moved.
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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Yes, I like the test tube rack. That was the first piece of equipment I made for my lab.
I also like the Morton salt. I have that too, labeled "For lab use only"
A lot of my larger utensils came from my wife's kitchen and are now labeled "For lab use only." Dinner plate, sauce bowl, stainless steel bowl,
coffee grinder, etc. Today I grabbed her turkey baster! Of course I replace all her stuff with new.
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psychokinetic
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Do you label her stuff "For Mrs. Magpie's use only"?
“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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That's a default position for utensils located in the kitchen, so labeling is not necessary. She does understand, however that the needs of the lab
sometimes take precedence over mere eating.
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