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In a phew philes on this system some
is how to make a still:
Once you get
the chemicals, ingred
ients, or what ever, you set up your
still. It is small,
efficient, and
safe. In it you can make things like
tear gas, prussic acide and
occasionaly
distill some alcohol.
First, a flask is fitted with a
one-holw
rubber stopper. A short length
of thin glass tubing is inserted into
the hole. A five
foot length of thin
rubber tubing is fitted over the glass
tube and coiled into the ice
bucket and
out through a hole near the bottom. The
end of the tube is fitted over
another
glass tube which is in a two-hole stopp
er stuck into a bottle. The other
hole
contains another glass tube to which is
attached another length of tubing long
any noxious or poisonous fumes.
The
equipment for a still is cheap
and simple to get. Most of it can be
bought from your
local drug store.
They carry tubing, stoppers, glassware
and many chemicals which they
freely
sell to doctors, students etc. If you
get on good terms with your druggist
and he doesn’t know you are crazy you
can buy most of your stuph from him.
A ring
stand or tripod for the flask
is more handy than the can in the
illustration (see
below). But a tin can
with strips cut out of it for ventilat
ion and for the removal of
the lamp is
usually adequate.
CHECKLIST OF EQUIPMENT:
<1>
alcohol lamp.
<2> ring stand, tripod or tin can.
<3> 500 ml or larger
flask
<4> assortment of one and two-hole
holeless rubber stoppers of various
sizes.
<5> about six yards of 3/16 of an inch
(inside diameter) rubber tubing.
(outside diameter) laboratory glass
tubin.
<7> child’s plastic bucket
<8> receiving bottle.
The hole in the bucket for the tube
is made somewhat smaller than the tube
so it will
fit snugly and prevent
leakage. Full strength wood alcohol for
the lamp can be bought at
the drug stor
e. Rubbing alcohol, although 30% water
will burn in the lamp but not so
well.
You can distill the purt alcohol off
the water from rubbing alcohol.
This is best done over a gas or
electric stove. First a large pan with
a couple of
inches of water in it is
put on the burner to be used and the
others are turned off.
The still is set up as the illustra
tion except the receiving bottle is
larger
and doesn’t need a stopper or
tube going outside. The flask is filled
with rubbing
alcohol to just under the
neck and set in teh pan of boiling
water.
In this
setup a coathanger wire
with a loop in its middle is put over
the neck of the flask and
fixed on the
sides of the pan. This is necessary
because as the alcohol distills off,
in the water and fall over without
support.
Another consideration is to make
sure the tube does not flop over and
collapse. This can be prevented by
hanging a string from the ceiling by
which the tubing
is held above the
flask.
The tubing should be further support
ed so it does
not touch the hot edge
of the pan. If it is allowed to lie
over the edge it will
melt.
When the action starts the alcohol
will fairly flow into the collecting
in the flask will be water. If left
alone
water would start dripping, much
slower than the alcohol, but this is
not wanted.
This is the only case where you
should distill over a stove. A stove
is harder to
control than an alcohol
lamp. It is also harder to clean up
than a table in case of an
accident.
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