I feel this is beginning of the fight jabs not a showstopper finishing move
I would just repeat the yo moms joke back in the retard voice thus delivering the peoples elbow to your burn
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Hey Elliot. You got literally anything to contribute here? Any glass you can part with to help out the class? Anything at all??
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Does anyone happen to know Elliotâs last name?
Look at you! Thank you! I had an email from that name but I wasnât sure if it was that same person that the 4200 community was referring to. 
You all are seriously some of the best souls out there, thank you for being so helpful along the way. Hopefully the connection is a good start! 
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There is a pretty big rabbit-hole one could go down hereâŚ
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Fantastic ! Your the man
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Oh snap, Iâm looking forward to it! Thank you so much
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Not to mention whats the likelyhood youll run into a SS system in a work type enviroment seeing as how new they are. Using an SS system theyll never get the hands on of applying vacuum grease and chasing leaks which will leave them dead in the water on a glass system.
Cleaning a glass short path is easy, throw some ethanol in the boiling flask and heat it up with one of the cold trap collection flasks detached. I literally only have to ever clean the flask itself which is super easy seeing that i have a 100mm head and can get my hands in there. Only time i need to scrub is when crude has sugars in it so i always water wash before hand so i usually just need to dump the ethanol out and rinse the boiling flask once then im good. Pretty hard to get any easier then that
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Water wash crude and have glassware that is a easy to clean, or donât waste time with that dihydrogen monoxide malarkey and end up throwing the flask out because youâve tried everythingâŚhmmm
Guess you could skip the water wash AND all those techniques for cleaning glassware and just throw your boiling flask out every time?
Or maybe kill it with fire?
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Or get your fishies to eat it for youâŚ
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Teach a man piranha and the evidence disappearsâŚ
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Iâve never had to deal with anything stubborn enough to warrant that vile swill. I suppose itâs a function of stubborn scooge and how bad you want it clean!
I guess all that is assuming youâve got a decent glass setup thatâs worth a fuck. My cheap ass went with garbage Chinese for my first setup, and I got such a bad taste in my mouth from that experience. I think the future of SPD is gonna end up in stainless. Wouldnât be a bad idea for educational programs to get ahead of the curve so they donât continue the trend of teaching outdated info for good $$
Iâd just like to point out that chemistry programs all over the world still use glass to teach students. In a commercial setting you are probably not going to use glass at all in most chemistry applications.
But the glassware is cheap. Watching the visuals is important. And deciding that people should instead learn on one piece of equipment which will be outdated soon - instead of learning fundamentals to then transfer to any piece of equipment (even one you build yourself!) seems counterintuitive to me.
At this point⌠I think I have used 11 different systems in the last 10 years, including two I built myself. They were all radically different from each other with various levels of safety and efficiency.
The skills from the first oneâŚnot so helpful. The skills from the ones I built - helped me understand way more.
But Iâm still leaning on the chemistry from my youth and the graduate research that I was doing when really digging into how things are working and why. And all that work was done in glass - on small bench scale equipment.
Like a little 500ml SPD. In fact - I recommend just using what the chemistry department already has on hand, so the lift is shared with other departments and the fundamentals can be learned along with all the other basic chemistry, organic chemistry, and analytical chemistry stuff.
This, of course, assumes that you want a student that knows about more than just cannabinoid distillation. Which is certainly the kind of worker I hire when I build teams. 
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