Idk if anyone has mentioned this - cut your cart foam into quarters and cap quickly. Once capped flip them upside down til their viscosity inhibits flow. You’ll still get pre wick but it won’t be so much.
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What if I told you the density of disty varies with temperature?
I would say I don’t understand why can you explain further
Edit maybe I just don’t fully understand density. Which is another reason why I use weight
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Liquids expand and contract as temperature changes. As the temperature increases, liquids often expand and take up a greater volume.
If you pour 100g of a liquid into a graduated cylinder at temperature X, it will be equal to some volume. Now if you warm that same 100g up to 30C greater than the temperature you started at, you should notice the volume being occupied by that liquid has increased.
Since density is a relationship between weight and volume, your density value should actually decrease as temperature increases. Notice the 100g remains the same weight at temperature X and temperature X + 30C yet the volume (or the denominator in the ratio) has increased.
Thus 100g/100mL would be 1g/mL whereas let’s say the new volume at temperature X + 30C is now 105mL, your density would now be 100g/105mL or 0.9524g/mL.
This is why when you calibrate equipment like pipettes that are dispensing small volumes of liquids, you often use water that is equilibrated at a specific temperature and a known density at that temperature, so you can verify the volume being dispensed is accurate based on the expected weight.
Hopefully this was an explanation easy to follow…it’s been a long day so far.
Edit I personally find using w/w ratio’s much more convenient. If you have a very thick or viscous liquid, the weight is the weight…but you definitely don’t know if you’ve fully dispensed all of the volume if you are measuring it and pouring.
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Yes thermal expansion. Heating the lid of the pickle jar up to accelerate the molecules causing them to bounce off each other and expand it so it loosens easier. So cold distillate shrinks
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Yes…I couldn’t tell if your comment about not understanding density was facetious or serious, so I gave a serious reply haha.
Furthermore, from my experience in chemical formulation, it’s very uncommon for potencies of active ingredients to be provided in a form other than %w/w. So there is convenience and support to be both accurate and precise by just weighing all your liquids before combining them.
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And both were well answered by the first response. (Thank you @TheTomatoGuy!)
If you still haven’t wrapped your head around why the cart farmer is superior to the 50 shot, and insist on “more automagic”, consider looking at another device that gets good reviews around here: Jet-Fueler Semi-Automatic Cartridge Filler
We’d love you to level up together… but by all means ignore the koolaid you’ve been offered if that’s what brings you joy.
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I had better results flipping upside down immediately after filling and capping, but BEWARE: make sure your carts are fully capped and sealed lol
If solid water was more dense than liquid water (true for most other stuff), or even if water at 1C was dense as it is as 4C, life on this planet just wouldn’t work.
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Get a cf50, lower temp, higher viscosity, flip after filling. Don’t act all big and knowledgeable if you can’t even figure out how to mix properly without your hand being held.
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Its very noticeable when pouring liters hot in media bottles and going by weight and seeing the line once it has cooled.
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Lol am I shilling?
Ahh I proved your point
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must be…
Making outrageous claims like: “even after spending $2k to upgrade my 50 shot, I wish I’d bought a cartfarmer” clearly illustrates just how effective the koolaid is.
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I learned it the hard way too.
Buy a CF50 or CF250 or larger
Although at least you learned a thing or 2 so it’s not a useless endeavor.
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Yeah, the oil heater will be my mantle soon and the sucker pot is perfect for scaling my nano production so no harm no foul. The capacity of the thing is 6L, and I only get orders of like 1200 carts, so tons of dead space.
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Yea you’re better off with a CF250 lol
Cool to see you built that though
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