Re: my building sucks

Yabahoobs wrote:
How the hell am I , or anyone else supposed to perform chemistry work
if the house vaccum line is as strong as one's confidence in Britney
Spears' sobriety ?

Ugh ! Get it together guys...We need some juice in our vacuum line or
I'm (and our rotovap) is a sitting duck.

Gave up using house vac for distillations or solvent stripping years ago.
Just when you have got a nice boil up rate, some one always opens/closes a
tap somewhere else (and with 40 fume cupboards in the lab...) - either the
boil up stops, or goes like *%&%^! - even known to empty a packed column
into the receiver... We only use all teflon DiVac pumps now - one per
distillation, the better ones giving down to 2mbar.

--
Ron Jones
Process Safety & Development Specialist
Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at
http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and
human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert
Einstein


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