VSEPR_VOID
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An Interesting Find on Ebay
Thoughts on this little still? It might be useful for elements other than mercury.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mercury-Retort-Large-Capacity-Conti...
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Would not want to be down wind.
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not the best I've ever seen, cooling section seems a bit short, pot design is poor.
I'd not touch that with a 20 foot pike pole even if free as it'd be a hassle, So I wouldn't recommend bothering with the thought of it.
Buyer beware, the new ebay motto
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For 130$ you could build a 10times better still from steel and Cu parts within one day
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And, within a day the copper parts would be attacked by the mercury.
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So just a standard death trap then. I imagine the designers saying to testers, "but did it explode, no? Full production!".
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Gold miners have generally been pretty cavalier about mercury.
I've seen worse mercury retorts on Ebay, including a few made with copper pipe (and air condenser only about 2 feet long).
I sure wouldn't use that thing, and I doubt getting that pipe-threaded bottom off the pot would be much fun after you'd heated it a few times.
I would guess these things get fired up in the middle of nowhere on some mining claim where any escaping mercury doesn't harm anybody much except the
operator.
A lot of the gold country out here is already pretty contaminated with mercury from years of mining so they probably figure a little more won't make
much difference.
It's not uncommon to find gold nuggets in some parts of Northern California that have metallic mercury stuck on them.
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Seems a tad ramshackle. Perhaps adding some vapour traps, or an extra condenser might make it a little safer.
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