writerman said:
How much product do you generally lose if you use hardware store acetone vs. anhydrous?
You don't even want to know....................or attempt it. Since no one really knows exactly how much water and/or alcohol is in hardware store acetone, I'll leave you with some actual numbers to consider carefully before you ever attempt it in the first place.
1 whole gram of pure cocaine is entirely soluble in just 1/2 ml. of water. That's right, 1 gram in 1/2 ml. Not good numbers if your dealing with any water or alcohol (same result) at all.
But if you read the entire 4000 pages of this thread, then you'd already know that you can easily turn hardware store acetone into anhydrous acetone by simply adding about 10 grams of anhydrous magnesium sulphate to a 1 liter can of acetone, shake thoroughly, and let settle for about 10 hours or so. How do I get anhydrous magnmesium sulphate you ask? Well, all you need is epsom salts. So, while your at the home store getting your 1 liter can of acetone, go ahead and pick up a bag of epsom salts while your there.
Go home, get out a baking pan, line it with aluminum foil, and spread out plenty of epsom salts. Preheat the over to 400 degrees f. Spread the epsom salts out evenly onto the baking sheet with no concern of using to much. You can just discard what you don't need when done. Bake the epsom salt crystals at 400 degrees for 2 hours. Your end result after 2 hours of baking will be an entirely different substance now known as, you guessed it, anhydrous magnesium sulphate! Dah, dah!
Now you can simply scrape up 10-15 grams of the newly manufactured anhydrous magnesium sulphate and with a small funnel, pour it directly into your 1 liter can of hardware store acetone. Shake thoroughly and then let settle for 10 hours. The magnesium sulphate will absorb all of the water/alcohol and take it to the bottom of the can. Therefore, once you've added the mag., never pour from the can again. Instead, only use a glass pipette (glass straw), or a glass eye dropper to barely reach down inside of the can of acetone to gather the exact amount of acetone you need without ever collecting any of the water absorbed goo at the bottom. In other words, once the can of acetone gets down to about 1/2 full, go ahead and discard it and start over with a fresh can of acetone and new anhydrous magnesium sulphate. That way you'll never get any of that goo in your acetone. Oh, and never use anything plastic like a drinking straw to draw out the acetone. plastic will quickly dissolve in acetone, and that's not a good thing. So always use glass pipettes, glass eye droppers, glass beakers or shot glasses and glass stir rods, okay.
Whew, I'm spent.
Le Junk
