I need your help lab-glassware anons
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I am looking to perform some distillations via a probably a 2000ml round bottom flask distillation setup for isopropanol purification.
Hello all, I am a /tg/ anon and I do a rather significant amount of 3D printing. Lately my printing has ramped up to almost 24/7 and, as I use 99% isopropyl alcohol to clean my prints, I am going through a metric fuckload of IPA. Normally I would UV blast my old IPA to remove the majority of the resin and then filter it through coffee filters but this has two issues
1) it's fucking messy and gets resin infused IPA on myself and my sink
2) I lose a LOT of my IPA doing it via this method because filtering takes for fucking ever and spillage, even if a small amount, happens.
So I have been looking into different methods of recycling my IPA that has a higher long term return on investment and loses less of my product too. This lead me to look into a distillation setup to remove the resin particulate instead. Now unfortunately I didn't go to school for chemistry, so I don't know where to buy reasonably priced glassware and I also don't know the best kind of distillation setup for what I want to do. As of right now I think a graham condenser on a 2000ml round bottom flask in a hot water bath leading to another 2l round bottom to catch the IPA is correct?
Hello all, I am a /tg/ anon and I do a rather significant amount of 3D printing. Lately my printing has ramped up to almost 24/7 and, as I use 99% isopropyl alcohol to clean my prints, I am going through a metric fuckload of IPA. Normally I would UV blast my old IPA to remove the majority of the resin and then filter it through coffee filters but this has two issues
1) it's fucking messy and gets resin infused IPA on myself and my sink
2) I lose a LOT of my IPA doing it via this method because filtering takes for fucking ever and spillage, even if a small amount, happens.
So I have been looking into different methods of recycling my IPA that has a higher long term return on investment and loses less of my product too. This lead me to look into a distillation setup to remove the resin particulate instead. Now unfortunately I didn't go to school for chemistry, so I don't know where to buy reasonably priced glassware and I also don't know the best kind of distillation setup for what I want to do. As of right now I think a graham condenser on a 2000ml round bottom flask in a hot water bath leading to another 2l round bottom to catch the IPA is correct?
