Tricks of the trade

Rocco SPD matched to a 5 dollar heat gun! Love it

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Trust me and don’t buy china glass. Rocco has great prices. Chasing leaks will ruin your life

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Oh I know Rocco has good stuff for sure but man I’m a cheap bastard

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  • 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
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??? Great list but this is tricks of the trade tread

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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.

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Does this work for live?

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I don’t see why not. As long as the material is packed nice and tight you should have no problem

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We have done that w stretched out coat hangers on a cordless drill

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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

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that looks like the tool I was looking for.

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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***.

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I find iT agood idea that You give an explanation of the danger
Some people don t understand what You are saying

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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.

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Air pressure tools are the way for these jobs

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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! :muscle::crazy_face:

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Column socks…

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i let my spools sit outside ovenight before cleaning, I only do 1-2LB runs

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Nitrogen works great for emptying columns as well, gets 5lbs out like a small cannon lol.

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