I did same but outdoors they go, I dont have a c1 d1. Hours later theyd still be chilled and offgassing. im kinda surprised a vac pump sparked though. Ive been lucky? butane stoichiometric air fuel ratio - Google Search my vac pump is only for post processing and not during the run. I have a spark free pump if doing active.
Our off-gas room had a full purge fan on at all times when the door was shut. The x-10 room was C1D1 but our vac pump was not lab rated for some reason. They upgraded it after the incident but it was an error on the company as well. I don’t necessarily trust companies to run things safely since they all try to bare bones shit just to pump out product which is why good techs are necessary.
How would a “good tech” know anything about equipment certification and hazardous areas. This is essentially a fast food worker you want to be an engineer?
Sound like the person running the lab was more irresponsible by having dangerous equipment in a spark free area
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The equipment was outside the room. The door was not shut and the SOP was not followed. The company is certainly at fault for not having the proper equipment but a good tech would follow the SOP and would understand the dangers of the tubes of gassing once they were trained, which they were.
We agree here
You got real lucky on that one
On this next clip you’ll witness a tech taking a spent crc column apart to clean and replace media. On this short clip you’ll notice the tech take the top of said column off, failing to depressurize the column. Youll see the media pop into his face and body. No injuires or product lost. The tech also failed to maintain a seal in the C1D1 by having the door propped open. As you can also see, he’s not wearing proper PPE. Please learn to depressurize a closed loop before opening spools.
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all chads should reach into the column Um kinda fed up. All chads should be taught lab accident via experience. Let them wrap a flaming sheet of plastic on their body. even pig bastards do a fake pepper spray shot where they close the eyes and get hit with a TINY TINY shot of pepper. When i spray a pig they are gonna have eyes open and Im using the entire can.
Chads aren’t in the box lol
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Great information for keeping others aware of the seriousness of running equipment. Thanks for sharing.
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Much like “the gun is always loaded,” I think “the wire is always hot” is a good initial assumption when working on anything. I have been replacing a floor in a structure, and the property owner thought she would help when I wasn’t there by cutting out what she thought was some old coaxial cable. It turns out that it was actually #6 aluminum wire, which has black insulation and looks almost the same, and was one of 3 live wires supplying the meager 100 amp service to the old building. Miraculously, chopping it with wire cutters did not shock her at all, despite the impressive explosion. Lesson learned, the wire is always hot.
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I find myself checking for current like a crackhead when doing wiring work.
Just checked it with the meter? Better check it again. Looked away for a split second? Well, that wire could have become energized again. Better check it.
I know I just shut off the main, better check it when I get back
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And this is why I always Lock-Out and every time I come back check to make sure the lock is still there… cause motherfuckers will turn shit back on just to shock the shit out of you…
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know that feeling all too well…
yeah, might have to add a set to my personal kit…got them at my regular gig (thanks @thesk8nmidget!).
Amazon.com $10 if you’re only looking for one…priceless if it stops some bozo from frying your ass.
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We have a bunch! You are welcome to have some
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I was trying to vacuum distill h3p04/when it started smoking from the flask, and i heard the vacuumpump noise change. I was on my way to realease the vacuum when it imploded in front of me, big big cloud of poly.
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Then again my setup was as ghetto as ghetto can be, my boiling flask was a old coffe pot (some special with two glas parts) and a short piece of stainless pipe was bent at 50’ to receiver a medicine bottle in PET with its own little waterbath.
On top of pipe i put nipple for vacuum and used an old compressor without tank.
It was not enough.for vacuum distilling thc (i tried) but it was real good att purging and lower boiling point distillations.
Rip coffe pot
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