Chemicals & Glassware for Sale - Price Drop

Updated Inventory

Quote: Originally posted by scienceboi

It would be cool if the site was updated to have each member have a limited online shop so inventory and transactions would be managed in an easy standard way. Maybe size of inventory would be tied to the number of stars or something?

BTW, chemglass, where did you get all this stuff? You must have had one hell of a home lab if you had all of that

I had a really cool home lab setup not too long ago and I'm sad that I don't have the room in the house we just moved in to have it all set up I have bins and bins full to the brim of cool glassware with vermiculite sitting in a storage unit now that I'll have to wait until another time to use.

The secret to the sauce is having a close connection to someone who owns a chemical manufacturing or distribution company. When I was an undergrad, I had, and still have, a close friend who runs a small custom fluorochemical manufacturing company. He was able to order extra quantities (in small amounts) of certain chemicals they already order and I was able to get small quantities of hard to find chemicals for relatively good prices. I mostly used them but would often sell some to help pay a very small portion of my tuition. He was basically buying chemicals for me and I would pay him. I think Chemsavers on Ebay does this too, where they'll allow you to buy chemicals from them that they can order for you through their business relationship with large chemical companies. But that's what I've heard at least. I've never bought anything from Chemsavers cause they're really expensive.

These chemicals I have are mostly a remainder of chemicals I got from him but some of them I purchased online by myself. I really want to have my home lab setup again but I don't really have the space to do it and before I set it up again, I want to build a custom fume hood but that's going to have to wait.

I'll mostly be trying to do a lot of outdoor chemistry in the meantime while I'm at this new house. I'l be working on mercury purification and supply, so hopefully I get a decent amount of mercury within the next few weeks that I can sell! I should have at least 50 lbs of mercury for sale by the end of July! So maybe I'll advertise that on here. I wish I had photos of this small home lab I had setup. Maybe when I get the chance to unpack and organize all my equipment and glassware I can share some photos

Quote: Originally posted by ChemGlass

Also, thank you Jenks for the positive feedback! Looking forward to your next couple packages arriving!

Thank you again for the incredible feedback Jenks I'm looking forward to firing up my new retort to get some mercury purified!

And just sent you an email backyardscience2000! Looking forward to discussing some chemistry

[Edited on 17-7-2021 by ChemGlass]

Hey +ION,

Thank you so much for the positive feedback!! Much appreciated

As for anyone interested in purified mercury, I've been having issues dealing with the welding shop I brought in iron parts to have welded. The retort was originally put together with threaded fittings. I probably could've used it as is, but I was worried about any leaks and wanted to get it welded. They advised to get rid of the threaded nipples between all the fittings and directly weld the parts together instead of welding threaded nipples to their corresponding parts. This was a great idea to me and made sense from a welders aspect. Long story short, they couldn't weld it after a long week of communicating with them. As of today, I have stainless steel parts on the way to get welded and should have my retort up and running as soon as I get the parts and they weld them.

For anyone wanting mercury, please give me another week to receive the parts and for the welder to have it pieced together. I'm sure because of all the delays they'll weld it up much quicker this time. As for my previous and poorly welded retort, I'm trying not to get charged for it since the welds are all cracked. They'll hold onto it until they get the new stainless parts to weld together and I'm assuming the iron retort they have is practically useless after all this work lol.

Anyway, that's just a "quick" update on my mercury. I have about 150 lbs that I'm hoping to begin distillation on within a week and then I can begin shipping out mercury orders. Thanks to everyone who has supported me with buying my chemicals and to any future orders. I've gotten to know some of you very well and you've all been incredibly helpful and a pleasure getting to know. Thank you all!

I had a great experience with this first time purchase from ChemGlass. My order was packed SUPER well, there was nothing spilled or broken. Communication was easy and quick, not to mention polite. I will definitely buy in the future if anything offered is needed.

Scooped up the LiBr, phenol and benzyl alcohol. The bottles/jars all had taped lids, double bagged in heat sealed bags, packed in a ton of vermiculite, triple zip-tied super thick plastic sheet all in an oversized box... Fantastic.

I work at a warehouse doing shipping, so I know first class care when I see it. ^^^
Thank you for an awesome interaction. The only hiccup that transpired was entirely my fault for pressing confirm on payment sent, and then saying I sent payment. But in reality, I had not completed paying by accident, it needed one more confirmation button of course. I was asked to check my payment I the most respectful way, and found my self to fault. Again sorry about that.





A small mountain of vermiculite no doubt.

[Edited on 25-7-2021 by violet sin]

Hey violet sin,

I can't tell you how much I appreciate the glowing feedback! I'm glad you're happy with the service I try to provide. I like going a little overboard with the packaging so I feel reassured knowing that any leaks and smells are entirely contained and there's next to no risk of any damage occurring during shipment. I look forward to getting more in stock while continuing to provide service like you've experienced.

For others interested in chemicals, I've had a few sales since the time I posted my last inventory update. I'll be updating the list to reflect what's left. Thanks again to all of you who took that leap of faith and purchased some of my chemicals. Even though I don't have an immense inventory yet, it's been very rewarding supplying what I'm able to so far.

Hey Amos,

Thank you for the positive feedback! I greatly appreciate it!

Hey enlight,

Thank you so much for the positive review! I'm glad everything arrived smoothly