Lucky Me

Its always good to have quality glassware, and it is even better if you get it for free .
Beakers of all kinds of volumes are a must to start with, besides of course the most basic things like test tubes and funnels.
You also should obtain some means of heating the beakers in a safe way. Most simple setup is an alcohol lamp, with a tripod and a gauze or asbestos sheet, better is a hot plate.

Splendid!
I also am pleased for you

having nice quality glassware is a pleasure in itself, and of course FREE is always the best price

well I also Got VERY lucky today too, I got talking to the Lab Tech at college today, and it seems she also has a passion for chem and nice glassware, so we got talking, and she took me into the stock room to see all the chems and the original bottles some 50+ years old, apparently the place was a real mess when she took over.
and even though she`s cleaned quite a bit up there`s a Load of stuff really old that has to be gotten rid of...

That`s where I come in!

so all being well, next Tuesday I`ll have sevral crates of ground glass reagent bottles all marked up, such a Sulphuric acid, Nitric acid, Sodium Hydroxide etc... as well as Kipps apparatus!
this isn`t all though, as there`s plenty more to sort out, other things will be mine to!

so Christmas has come early this year for the YT Lab!

naturally she said No to the old chems, but I aint greedy.


[Edited on 28-9-2007 by YT2095]

I managed to inherit some glassware my father had when he was a home chemist... back in the days when you could go to your pharmacist and say "please sir, i'm a home chemist, could you order some nitric acid in for me".

Most of my stuff I bought, at great expense. I'm not even sure I could do that now, 5 years later.

And ye Slimz, free glassware is good glassware.

Since we're all bragging about free glassware ...
Years ago my wife was working at a med equipment supply company. They had decided to stop stocking glassware, and were having a hard time offloading it (even at a discount). So it was all going to be dumped . I found out, and asked if I could pick up a few pieces (expecting to have to pay). I was led into the storeroom and told "help yourself". I left with three carloads of brand new Schott Duran ground-joint kit - gratis! Oh happy day!

well my 1`st load arrived yesterday:


there are 7 bottles there one of each, HCl, H2SO4, HNO3, barium chloride, silver nitrate, ammonia and sodium hydroxide.



this is a closeup of the HCl bottle, it`s quite deeply etched and good quality.



these are the rest that haven`t been cleaned yet.
I`m still keeping my fingers crossed for the Kipps though!

that and another car load!
including stuff I have no idea about, but so far I have cataloged:
1, a Hoffman Voltameter
2, Victor Meyer apparatus
3, Landsberger apparatus
4, Washburn & Read apparatus
5, Beckmann freezing point apparatus
6, Cottrel Brown Boiling Point apparatus
7, 3 small bubbler scrubbers
8, load of volumetric stuff

and I haven`t finished yet either, I may post some pics to help me ID a few things, for instance I have a dozen hand blown glass spheres, in each there is an amount of lead shot, the sealing end of the glass is shaped into a Hook.

if it wasn`t for the fact that where quite heavy and the lead inside leaved the glass looking a but dusty inside, these would Not look out of place on a Christmas tree
I tried one in water and it sinks also.