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Shedworld Reloaded
Today i simply had to use my still unfinished new fume hood.
It's an absolute Joy !
Proper storage for everything, all easy to access, easy peasy setup of apparatus, and, best of all, excellent lighting !
Need Water, gas, vacuum ? Plug in a pipe, flick a switch or twist a valve.
Need a reagent or a bit of glassware ? Pull out a drawer and there it is ! (unless it's on the shelf to your left).
Today a simple acetone extraction with the soxhlet.
Nobody locally seems able to the make the double counter-weighted sash front doors, so i'll have to do that myself tomorrow.
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Home, sweet home  .
Really good job man, I wish to have something similiar at home too...
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You are very lucky... Is this all home made?
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Yep.
The majority of the framework is 3~4 IKEA 'Albert' book shelves (€9.99 each)
The 'drawers' are the upside-down shelves from another IKEA metal shelving unit, also around a tenner. .
The Oven i got from Lidl for about €40 (doubles as a heater in winter).
The fridge was a broken wine cooler in the bins, so that was free.
The Vac gaugue was on the vac pump - i just moved it to somewhere visible.
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Nice one man, enjoy working in your new fume hood!  I like the idea to have
vacuum under the control with gauge... Wish I had such a fume hood at home once.
Our webpage has been shut down forever cause nobody was willing to contribute. Shame on you all!!!
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@aga:
Wow. Could you build one for me? 
What provides ventilation?
Curious to see how 'the double counter-weighted sash front doors' will fit in?
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Is the butane for the Bunsen connection stored in a tank, or do you have an external supply?
Can you put me on your client list
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Quote: Originally posted by blogfast25  |
Wow. Could you build one for me?
What provides ventilation?
Curious to see how 'the double counter-weighted sash front doors' will fit in? |
Sure. Just send a cheque made out to Chemistry Aga Safety Hoods (or C.A.S.H for short).
Ventilation is an extractor fan at the back. You can't see it in the photos because there's also a baffle system to make it suck from the top and
bottom of the back of the hood.
The 'doors' will be two vertically sliding glass panes.
There is not enough height to have one pane of glass opening all the way, so two panes that can slide over each other is a solution, same as a sash
window.
A surprise was that Pb at the scrapyard is really cheap : 5 euros for about 10 kilos.
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What are you using as piping from the extractor fan to the outside world? I am 14 and starting a home laboratory, mostly for organic chemistry but
with a bit of energetic materials. I wouldn't want perchlorates (for the sake of example) building up in a tube like that. My chemistry teacher has
already had a nasty shock from a desk soaked with perchlorates ages ago.
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This is a Shed in the middle of no-where, so it's a Gas Bottle.
Sorry, but No. My days as a male prostitute are finished (i just don't have the good looks for it anymore).
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The Shed basically IS in the outside world, so i just have a 100mm PVC elbow at the back of the fume hood.
100mm is big enough to get your hand in, also big enough so you can see anything building up.
My own chemistry has not included anything nastier than chlorine gas so far, for which PVC is fine.
If you go down the perchlorate path, then you'll be looking at a lot of $ and plenty of teflon.
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The elbow is standard drainpipe fitting and i have some 3m lengths of straight pipe i can attach if i feel that any fumes might get really frisky,
although i'd also being wearing a gas mask in that case.
[Edited on 10-5-2016 by aga]
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Is there still a water supply out there? Just by the way, what kinds of chemicals do you have there.
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Nope. (pump switch controls a submersible pump in a bucket).
Quite a few.
In that order.
Edit:
Why do you say 'still' ? That would suggest pre-knowledge.
Please think up a great answer or Bert will be really annoyed that i won the bet already.
Probably be good for his back though.
[Edited on 10-5-2016 by aga]
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Wow, that's something to behold. It really makes a lot of sense too, much easier and cost effective to make and install a fumehood at the same time in
a shed. You should take a panoramic of it, give a full tour. I saw that minifridge too, nice touch. Did any of your neighbors ask if you were making a
meth lab though?
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I've been lurking for a while. I assumed that no gas = no water.
What do you mean about a bet?
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It really is not like that here.
My neighbours on on the next hill, around 400m line-of-sight. Around 900m to go from my house to theirs.
We (almost) all live out here because we do not want other people interferring, so we say Hi etc, when we meet in the village or on the road, but do
not visit each other unless there is a life-threatening emergency, which is rare.
Meth labs are not such a huge industry in this part of Spain.
Cannabis is a far bigger political problem as it really does grow like a Weed in this kind of climate.
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No idea.
I have not lived in the UK for over a decade.
The question does not relate to this thread either, which is very faulty etiquette.
Eton has obviously let the standards slip 
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Sorry about that. I'll remove the question.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Eosin Y | Do you think that my ordering of distillation apparatus of Ebay and also my ordering of a lot of strange chemicals will get the police to pay me a
visit? Just thinking that it might be a place to bring this up.
These chemicals:
NaOH - NaOCl - Urea - Trichloroisocyanuric acid - Sodium dichloroisocyanurate - Lantern batteries - Aluminium powder - Ferrocerium - Magnesium -
Potassium perchlorate - Sodium perchlorate - H2SO4 - Potassium nitrate - Antifreeze - Hydrogen peroxide - Calcium oxide
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If you stick to stuff that doesn't require a license, then definitely NO.
Restricted stuff is gradually being phased out by eBay but I can see they aren't on top of all the regulations just yet.
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Ah. Thanks Blogfast: I heard Brits being investigated for a suspected meth lab after some orders like this.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Eosin Y | | Ah. Thanks Blogfast: I heard Brits being investigated for a suspected meth lab after some orders like this. |
It's still very rare in the UK to be investigated by the Met for possession of chemicals, within reason of course.
Should they request an interview, cooperate and be clear about your purposes.
As a seller I have dealt with them a few times and can't in the slightest complain about their treatment.
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Looks great aga, I like the PVC storage on the right side of the fume cupboard, perfect for those long items like condenser and frac columns, if I
decide to build a fume cupboard I'll be stealing that idea from you
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Coming soon to a laboratory supply house near you...the agahood!
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Sweet hood! I used dumbbell weights as counter-weights for the sash, which worked out really well. Although it is a little heavy to close, it's still
very smooth and the window stays in place.
  
[Edited on 11-5-2016 by KodasLab]
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That looks really Cool !
Is the front door glass ?
Guess it must be to need counter-weighting.
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