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Lucky Me
well i was talking about hemistry with my father who used to work in a pigment plant, in the lab (30 years ago), and found that he still had a bunch
of pyrex so i now have
2 x 2000ml beakers
2 x 1500ml beakers
3 x 1000ml beakers
3 x 500ml beakers
3 x 250ml beakers
2 x 100ml beakers
1 x 50ml beaker
1x5000ml Filtering Flask (Heavy)
1xLarge ceramic filter funnel w/ rubber ring
all Pyrex brand
grand total
$0.00
not a bad start for free eh'?
[Edited on 28-9-2007 by Slimz]
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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.
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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
\"In a world full of wonders mankind has managed to invent boredom\" - Death
Twinkies don\'t have a shelf life. They have a half-life! -Caine (a friend of mine)
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Good thing you aren't in Texas!
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Slimz
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LOL I read that post...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sauron
Good thing you aren't in Texas! |
Pride of America
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YT2095
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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]
\"In a world full of wonders mankind has managed to invent boredom\" - Death
Twinkies don\'t have a shelf life. They have a half-life! -Caine (a friend of mine)
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Slimz
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Awesome... i was happy with my haul but it sound like you got lucky too...
I just ordered some more from agile-fx.com, some beakers and a separation funnel and some tubes and a thermometer..
onlinesciencemall.com sells lab plastic ware at ok prices too (like wash bottles etc)
plasticware link
Johnny was a chemist’s son, but now he is no more. What Johnny thought was H2O was H2SO4
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sauron
Good thing you aren't in Texas! |
What post?
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Slimz
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http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=9144&a...
[Edited on 28-9-2007 by Slimz]
Johnny was a chemist’s son, but now he is no more. What Johnny thought was H2O was H2SO4
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O M F G
The stupidity..
Anyway, great for you Slimz, good glassware is always nice :-) is it still in good shape?
[Edited on 28-9-2007 by Mardec]
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Slimz
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yeah its all unchipped and in great condition
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Heh, today I bought 6 1000ml volumetric flasks with stoppers for £3 each from an army surplus store..they appear to have no defects..I also got 3
reduction adapters for large reaction vessels for £1 each. Which is nice.
In vials of ivory and coloured glass
Unstoppered, lurked her strange synthetic perfumes,
Unguent, powdered, or liquid - troubled, confused
And drowned the sense in odours.
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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.
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Slimz
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I have gone thru the attic and come across a few more large beakers (2500+) but i have a problem...
i have one of these
http://www.chemistry.pomona.edu/Chemistry/1alab/www/fall2006...
its about that size too (5000-6000 ml)
but its full of dirt.. i dumped most of it out but how the hell do you clean one of thease things...
I was thinking of puting sand and water in it to scrape off the dirt (swirling it around).. is that OK for the glass?
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Use NaCl and water. Add an excess of salt to act as your abrasive.
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Slimz
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so salt and water .. ok...
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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!
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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!
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Twinkies don\'t have a shelf life. They have a half-life! -Caine (a friend of mine)
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And you got that for free YT2095!!?
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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.
\"In a world full of wonders mankind has managed to invent boredom\" - Death
Twinkies don\'t have a shelf life. They have a half-life! -Caine (a friend of mine)
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Nice!...I am going to suggest not using the NaOH ground glass stoppered bottle...Mine has been frozen shut for a year now.
As for bragging...I had a building at my university be shut down. Lots of fun free stuff, mainly physics machines which I have hidden away and will
never use, but I got some chems and glassware out of it.
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How on Earth are you getting all that stuff for free though?
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