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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4155 on: September 19, 2017, 03:34:20 PM »
 I'm getting up to get myself a few capsules with CBD oil. Then I should kick myself to bed. I'm knackered.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4156 on: September 20, 2017, 01:00:02 AM »
I've been up all night, but I am not at all tired.

Beginning the process of bolting clamps on stands and plugging in hotplates, rooting out thermometers and thermocouple probes, pouring the contents of flasks of oily looking (and rather nicely colored as it happens) liquids into conical flasks and getting ready to drive residual solvent off of them and then pour in some metal dust and a measure of acid and start heating.

Although I'd sooner have used it than not, I can do without, but buggering well can't find the regulator for my argon tanks (inert gas) and I think I'm going to switch to one of my other hotplates, this digital one is a pain in the arsehole because the instructions for programming the temperature ramping (thankfully not critical in this case, if I HAVE to I can compensate) and its error-correction subroutine is in shitting chinese, and the engrish tlansration is barely comprehensible, garbled bollocks. And instead of setting a temperature, and simply setting a second temperature value that if there is a problem, that its off by X number of degrees too much or too little. And expects you to do bloody division equations just to set the fucking temperature. Plus its got something like 3-4 functions in the control system that are present, but not even listed, let alone ex the fuck plained. Maybe in chinese...but am I chinese? no, am I bloody bollocks chinese. I might eat chinese takeout but the names of a few foods are as much chinese as I know, and I don't READ it at all) I might even have to atm, do manual error correction, by measuring the error, and how far its off by, and deliberately setting the wrong temperature to USE the off value and predict what it will be when set to E.g double, half, quarter etc. of whatever because I just tried to set '40 degrees 'C' for the temp value and it ramped up to 40 and carried on going to nearly 70. If it stops there, when heating a flask filled with water I might just work with it, THIS time, and continuously monitor temperature manually using a glass thermometer (which I've been doing to make sure that this annoying fucker of a magnetic stirrer-hotplate doesn't start buggering me about like that, and calibrate the error value manually so I only have to set the temperature, minus the error value.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4157 on: September 20, 2017, 10:50:46 AM »
Second call in two days caller identified as Aneroid SK.  Googled it.  It's a town in Saskatchewan.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4158 on: September 20, 2017, 11:24:31 AM »
Second call in two days caller identified as Aneroid SK.  Googled it.  It's a town in Saskatchewan.

"Microsoft Windows" call?

Seem to get them form Rotterdam right now. Before this it was easy to spot as a foreign number, not any more.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4159 on: September 20, 2017, 03:56:00 PM »
Second call in two days caller identified as Aneroid SK.  Googled it.  It's a town in Saskatchewan.

"Microsoft Windows" call?

Seem to get them form Rotterdam right now. Before this it was easy to spot as a foreign number, not any more.

No idea.  If it's not a friend and therefore in my phone's memory, I don't answer it.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4160 on: September 20, 2017, 05:35:00 PM »
Watching family guy, while I wait for my old man to go to bed, since I need him not to be about, so I can set about preparing to work on stuff.

A plate loaded with calcium chloride baking in the oven, to dry it to anhydrous CaCl2, so I can use it to pack drying tubes to keep some alcohol being dried anhydrous, and readying to finish off the last of the H2O using, slowly and carefully under ice-salt-methylated spirit bath cooling, calcium oxide to dry it (quick-lime). 5% H2O might be a bit much, for going straight to quicklime dessication, so I'll cool the alcohol to be dessicated right down and add the CaO in small portions, keeping an eye on the temperature and doing it slowly, since calcium oxide is very exothermic when hydrating and in this case the excessive heating  isn't desirable.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4161 on: September 20, 2017, 05:46:32 PM »
Procrastinating. Should be writing.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4162 on: September 20, 2017, 06:02:23 PM »
Been baking for a bit less than half an hour.   Needs a bit longer first to make sure my CaCl2 is dry though.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4163 on: September 21, 2017, 12:29:15 PM »
About to mark as read about 4 pages of posts.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4164 on: September 23, 2017, 06:00:38 PM »
I wonder why that could be, QV.....:P

I'm currently finishing off the microwaving of a neat, solventless variation on a reaction that usually takes 6-7 hours on a steam or hot water bath, reducible to 20 minutes, although for smaller batches half that can work. But am testing a 30 minute irradiation time and slight excess of the reagent which if insufficient in quantity would lead to formation of a byproduct that needs further workup to remove. Making sure the temperature never strays above 5 degrees or so from the start of the range (60-70 'C, keeping it about 64-66) and going from the color of the reaction mixture its turning out the best yet:))
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4165 on: September 23, 2017, 07:35:23 PM »
Posting in The PR's bedroom waiting for her to fall asleep.

Until we get my computer set up she has the only functioning computer in the house.  I gave PA's to my sister.  Mine is still sitting in my bedroom waiting to be put in what is now the Small Room (PA's bedroom) beacause his and The PR's bedrooms are the only ones with computer access.  Long story and not relevant.  Nope, not interested in remotely connecting the computer.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4166 on: September 24, 2017, 02:01:09 AM »
At the airport, waiting to board a flight.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4167 on: September 24, 2017, 11:24:50 AM »
Fiddling around with PAs BB (air) pistol.  I feel bad ass.  I realize that in case of the zombie apocolypse I'd be useless.  But I still feel bad ass.

BTW, the safety is on and we have no BBs in the house, so unless I boink someone on the head they're safe.
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4168 on: September 24, 2017, 11:25:30 AM »
About to put a load of clothes into the washer.  Take The PR for a drive.  She's going bonkers.  I might even bring her back (JK folks.)
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Re: What are You doing right now? (Pt 2)
« Reply #4169 on: September 24, 2017, 11:27:02 AM »
Sitting in my flat for the week, reading and posting on I2.
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