Rocco SPD matched to a 5 dollar heat gun! Love it
Trust me and don’t buy china glass. Rocco has great prices. Chasing leaks will ruin your life
Oh I know Rocco has good stuff for sure but man I’m a cheap bastard
- Large food grade SS buckets
- Qaulity glassware
- Multiple back-ups of glassware
- Multiple pumps
- min. -50 degree freezer
- Having a PhD organic chemist who has worked in pharmaceutical development
- Having a outside scientific advisor to review and question SOPs
- Silica plates for thin film chromatography
- If you have the money, a HPLC for analytics
??? Great list but this is tricks of the trade tread
Easiest way to clean out a column… use a a dog tie out steak. Simply screw it into the material and once you’ve got it in far enough you pull it out. Quick and clean.
Does this work for live?
I don’t see why not. As long as the material is packed nice and tight you should have no problem
We have done that w stretched out coat hangers on a cordless drill
That sounds rad, how about a loop of piano wire chucked in a drill? Some hardware stores stock piano wire (spring steel wire) back in the area where they have the project stuff like sheets/rods/tubes of copper/brass/aluminum.
I use this to clean my columns
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LNTO8A/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1
that looks like the tool I was looking for.
Please don’t use cordless drills when cleaning out material columns. I know a guy who is covered in 3rd degree burns from trying that s***.
I find iT agood idea that You give an explanation of the danger
Some people don t understand what You are saying
I imagine the charge that controls the motor sparked the residual butane in the column.
I like the dog stake. I’m not for using anything electric in a near vacinity of a hydrocarbon extractor.
Air pressure tools are the way for these jobs
Too bad the torque from an air motor sucks, you have to spin the thing fast through a gear reduction to make up for lost torque. I just use the good ol’ pusher stick!
Column socks…
i let my spools sit outside ovenight before cleaning, I only do 1-2LB runs
Nitrogen works great for emptying columns as well, gets 5lbs out like a small cannon lol.