What an awesome Christmas. I finally got my Drysyn round bottom flask heating block and Harry has posted a new video. Great work and I hope you have a fantastic new year.

@EdwardTriesToScience

Жыл бұрын

a little advice is to put some fiberglass cloth in it as the direct heat from the aluminum stresses the glass, you can find many drysyn fails on twitter where the flask cracks in half almost comically where it contacts the drysyn due to the direct heat

@adamcoogan9122

Жыл бұрын

Thanks you for the hot tip to young players. I will be sure to heed your advice

Always a good day when you upload!

Bunnings the armature chemist's friend, MEK is also use as a cleanup solvent for fiberglass resin, don't get MEKP that's the catalyst

neat! It´s a shame that so many important regents are not easy to get for amateur chemists in the US

@snoowbrigade

Жыл бұрын

Can the average person get sulfuric acid in us? The average person in Europe can't because of imported acid attacks.

@THYZOID

Жыл бұрын

@@snoowbrigade in the us it should still be easy

@MARKE911

Жыл бұрын

MEK is easily obtainable from almost any paint store or smaller hardware stores with a decent paint department.

@MaxfieldTwo

Жыл бұрын

@@peepeepoopoo5932I’m in the US and I haven’t had too much trouble! Except for carbon tet.

@davidfetter

Жыл бұрын

@@MARKE911 that very much depends where you live.

If the MSDS doesnt list any other component in the priming fluid then you can look at the physical properties to determine whether what you bought is close to 99% MEK. Check the physical properties like boiling point, freezing point, and flash point against the physical properties of MEK.

What sucks in the US is that they took it out of most things back about 5 years ago. Now we have to buy it directly as a bottle full, which can get expensive. And you can't get just 50ml or 100ml. You gotta get like a liter at least. And most won't ship to normal people, or if they do you have to pay more in shipping fees than that you pay for the product itself. They really make it hard to get here for most people. If anyone needs a small amount under 500ml, hit me up and I can help you out if you're in the US. Exporting is way too expensive for it to be useful like that.

Excited to see what this will be used for!

@jankarlsson6261

Жыл бұрын

At my work we used it as a rinsing fluid in our ink jet printers, preventing the jet nozzles to clog.

I still have a gallon of so of MEK. Haven't needed it for a long time but its good to know how to get it.

Nice 👏

Nice

I remember about 12 years ago a big box store here in the sates, called Lowe's had MEK by the gallon on their shelves. No longer though.

@WaffleStaffel

Жыл бұрын

You might check Ace. I got a gallon for $30 a couple years ago. They also have Rooto H2SO4 and potassium chloride de-icer.

@BackYardScience2000

Жыл бұрын

Yep, by law it was removed from all consumer products and those that haven't yet will soon when they get caught still putting it in their stuff. Sadly, makes it hard to get here in the states. Gladly, I have a lot and won't run out for a long, long time.

nice

Classic distillation! I assume you didn't find anything in the potential ingredient list that would have required a fractioning column or other fancy gear.

@ScrapScience

Жыл бұрын

The MSDS gave a very disappointingly small amount of information. It only listed 'methyl ethyl ketone >60%', just like the label on the bottle. I assumed the rest was probably water and other hydrocarbons with a similar boiling point, but I've got no way of checking.

MEK is a great solvent. Got a lot more grunt than acetone. Where were you able to get your glassware from?

@ScrapScience

Жыл бұрын

All my glassware is just cheap stuff from Ebay that I've collected over the years.

Hello, just ask how many hours / days the process to make potassium chlorate, on your previos video? (If not objection could you put how many time (hours, minutes or even days) taken for every single process ) thanks.

Educational video, but in the UK, eBay has MEK (98.9%) at £19.50 for 5 litres

Hello what city do you live in

MEK? You can find it at a paint store.

You should do a collaborative with extractions and ire/explosions and fire

@ScrapScience

Жыл бұрын

In my dreams, haha. Maybe one day.

@scraptactics2993

Жыл бұрын

@@ScrapScience check out extraction and ire he's keen for Chem colabs!

Let me guess, next video will be about making hydrazine?

@davidfetter

Жыл бұрын

Um, why? Butanone has a lot of uses.

@ScrapScience

Жыл бұрын

Not hydrazine actually, though I thought some people might assume that. I'll actually just be using it as a solvent, but you'll have to wait for further details I'm afraid.

I would've checked the MSDS for the product to note all the components. By law they must list all the ingredients in the product (but don't have to list their exact amount).

@ScrapScience

Жыл бұрын

As it turned out, the MSDS didn't give any more information than the label on the bottle. It just said 'methyl ethyl ketone - >60%'. I suppose that means the rest is something benign like water, or maybe it's significantly more pure than I expected...

@JehuMcSpooran

Жыл бұрын

There is so much stuff in Bunnings that doesn't list all ingredients in their SDS. Diggers brand is classic for this with their solvents, like enamel thinners and such.

Man i used to wash my hands with MEK

MEKP next? 😉

@BackYardScience2000

Жыл бұрын

I know you're probably just joking but, no thanks to that idea. We'd rather not see him get in trouble or get a video taken down and get a strike for it on his channel. I know other channels that have gotten strikes for posting its synthesis before. Definitely not something you want to post yourself doing, at least. Simply to not draw attention ones self. Lol

@Hobypyrocom

Жыл бұрын

@@BackYardScience2000 i had quite active pyro forum in the past, they made me take it down after 2001, excuse was "you are teaching terrorists how to make stuff, ether take it down or we will take you down" 🤦‍♂ its quite stupid yeah... like terrorists are just random people doing stupid stuff, they need info about how to make devices online 🤣 yes he should avoid showing the synthesis, but showing the energetic stuff is fair game...

@ScrapScience

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, energetics is a topic I'm never going to delve into on this channel, sorry. While it's true that I don't like the idea of working out the legality and/or the KZread guidelines, the main reason is that explosive compounds just don't interest me, and I'd much rather watch others deal with them instead. The MEK is just going to be used as a solvent, nothing too exciting.

@Hobypyrocom

Жыл бұрын

@@ScrapScience i respect that, keep the great videos coming and best wishes.

@calculatedrush

4 ай бұрын

I'm with @BackYardScience2000 and @ScrapScience , energetics will get channel banned or person in trouble- and in my opinion they aren't that interesting anymore. There's only so much fun you can have. However, Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide can be used for polymerization and crosslinking. To me, that's interesting and fun.