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ThatchemistKid
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My little lab
Hello here are a few pics of my little lab, it is situated in a garage 
a view of the messy lab with the in the making glove box on the side (still needs to be sealed and the argon cylinder bought for it)
the fumehood and the chemical cabinet
the glassware, along with a glimpse of some benzene being distilled at the side.
chemicals
chemicals!
chemicals!!
some hardware
the touch screen and brain that controls all of appliances( switch program turns everything on and off etc..)
Inside of the glove box!
a picture of a constant extraction set up in the fumehood that for whatever reason will not post but keeps coming up as an attachment ( I must have
done something wrong somewhere)
Attachment: phpQSa6fH (179kB)
This file has been downloaded 1172 times
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ThatchemistKid
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Ok I figured it out so here are the last couple of pictures
Im very interested in seeing other peoples labs as well so please do post more!
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Sedit
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After seeing yours you would be less then interested in seeing mine
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
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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smaerd
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Jesus! What a nice set-up!
How much was that vacuum pump and what kind of trap do you use to catch solvent, etc?
Really nice fume-hood! What kind of metal is the exhaust?
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ThatchemistKid
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uhhm that vacuum pump was 79 dollars actually, it works very well. In terms of a trap I use the pump more for filtration then vacuum distillation but
generally a a heavy walled flask two holed stopper at -30 or -40 or colder depending on the solvent.
the fume hood duct is just regular duct aluminum/steel (I think), which means every year or so it has to be replaced but that can be avoided by
putting a couple of activated carbon filters in the duct system and switching them out every couple of months
I also plan on tiling the inside of the fumehood to prevent an extra corrosion because the past couple of years are starting to take their toll. The
fans (there are actually two fans one of which just died so i have to replace it) in the fumehood are one from a stove hood and the other is a fuel
air fan for a boat, the second fan moves quite a bit of air.
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smaerd
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 Thanks for responding so thoroughly, that fume-hood is an adventure I need to
take soon enough.
Hey paying a couple dollars every year to keep yourself safe and alive, I'd say is a fair trade  .
I never thought of using just a cold flask, but that's pretty clever .
I say lay the tile down. The hardest part is cutting the tile, but if you have a wet-saw(or rent one), it's not even hard haha. Tile can be acquired
very affordably too. Easy to clean, etc. I'm sure you knew all that already though.
Thanks again, and your lab is a beast! Hard-work pays off .
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ThatchemistKid
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well i found some very nicely white or black (cant decide) tile 8 inch squares I think it was for 40 something cents a piece at the hardware store so
thats a done deal!
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ACProdigy
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@ThatChemistKid: Don't forget some of the new features for the control program
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ThatchemistKid
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mmm sounds nice if I ever get around to buying those sensors or you ever get around to finishing the code
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ira_deZ
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mr.crow
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@ThatchemistKid Holy Cow!!!
@ira_deZ that looks like it came from the DEA website
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble
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Mr. Wizard
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Hmmm. Not to sound toooo paranoid, but one man's home lab is another man's 'probable cause'. I don't doubt all shown here are legitimate home labs,
but some government agents simply don't care what you are doing with it; if you could make drugs with it they can convince a judge to issue a search
warrant. Cops and judges are not usually science buffs and a scale and a reflux set up just look like the last meth lab they just handled.
My advice, and I realize it wasn't requested, is to keep your lab pictures off the internet. You are not anonymous, your IP shows up on this board,
and I'll bet my 5" floppy drive they can pinpoint your posting to a spot on a map.
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mewrox99
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I think your being a tad too paranoid. But I live in NZ
If I lived in Australia on the other hand, noone would see my home lab
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Rogeryermaw
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he's not paranoid at all. it's complacence that makes people (at least in the states) think that there is a single key stroke they ever made hasn't
been monitored. they see your posts. they see your text messages. they hear your phone calls. they know what porn you jerk it to. they have deep
pockets in washington and they use it to fund some of the most sophisticated hackers you ever dreamed of. if you really want any privacy at all, go
inside, close the doors, cover the windows and turn off and unplug every electronic thing in your house. it has nothing to do with paranoia. it has to
do with governments being terrified of people who have enough brain power to think for themselves and when you start absorbing information you can get
the fool notion that its ok. they hate free thought. they feel it makes you a threat to thier monopoly.
i have some nice things i'm dying to show to my fellow chemist community but i don't dare because i live in what was once the meth capital of the u.s.
and that i own such things is certainly worth a conviction regardless of my intentions however benign.
[Edited on 30-9-2010 by Rogeryermaw]
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'Paranoia is a thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid
thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself.'
So Rogeryermaw, whilst nothing you say about the capabilities of the government is untrue, I think you would still be classed as a paranoid:
1.) You assume that you, personally, are the subject of all this highly expensive government attention.
2.) You allow this fear to have a debilitating effect on your day to day life.
I'm not saying you shouldn't be careful, of course, to stay on the right side of the law and not provoke the authorities. But like, come on.
[Edited on 30-9-2010 by Mossydie]
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Rogeryermaw
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i don't think it's me they're watching. i think it's all of us. maybe not directly but all communications are archived. if you do something wrong and
get caught, they have records to use against you. i will never for one second think that any member of our federal "system" cares about anything but
furthering their own interests. it's like the grass in the yard. when one blade rises above the rest we don't celebrate it. we cut it down to match
the template.
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psychokinetic
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It would be impossible to monitor everyone, but they notice things.
“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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DDTea
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Really, I think some of you are a bit too paranoid about monitoring and surveillance. I mean, it doesn't hurt (well, it DOES hurt your sanity), but
really it's worth researching. Surveillance/monitoring, simply put, is expensive. It costs many man hours to collect and analyze data, especially if
it might not be an important case in the end. Really, most people are *not* watched until they set off some trigger which could initiate an
investigation. For example, if you have suspected AQ connections and there are records of you ordering a few gallons of phosphorus oxychloride, then
you can reasonably expect to be watched
Chemistkid: how does your glovebox work? Do you load things from the top, or do you have some atrium where you load things in?
"In the end the proud scientist or philosopher who cannot be bothered to make his thought accessible has no choice but to retire to the heights in
which dwell the Great Misunderstood and the Great Ignored, there to rail in Olympic superiority at the folly of mankind." - Reginald Kapp.
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