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Storing Chemicals - Anyone tried this?
Just thinking about storing chemicals - never a great fan of the concertina bottles for some reason. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone had tried using empty wine bottles and pumping the air out with Vacu Wine Saver device?
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Yep, i've posted about this a few times, it works very well. I generally use empty beer bottles. It works so well frankly I'm amazed it's not standard procedure, sure as hell is more convenient and safer than filling your bottles with thousands of marbles, or spraying propane around the house.
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What method is used to empty the wine, or beer bottles?🙃
Alex |
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Washed-out wine bags in their boxes work very well too, as do polypins. Somewhere in FADU there is a thread on this as well
I am washed-out in the other sense of the word as well but I blame my brother Charlie who came down to my dressing room at the Garden and told me it wasn't my night. They were taking the price on Wilson As it is almost the weekend a bit of levity is justified !I coulda bin a contender" Mike |
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Like Mike I also use the empty wine bags and boxes (got the idea off Mike) they have been the best for keeping mixed Bromophon in, its also very enjoyable drinking the contents which of course is essential to obtain the vessels.
Richard |
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Thanks all.
I think I prefer the bottles idea as I'll probably be doing small volumes of chemicals at a time, and I've found 24 bottles (should be plenty) for £12.10 on line. |
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Just make sure you label them clearly, keeping them away from others and most importantly, don't drink from them. I don't drink. But I can see this possibility for some, especially on weekends.
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Thank you very much for the one you gave me yesterday, will be filling it with D-76 over the weekend.
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Bought 20 of these 500 ml spout bags and I use them to store Xtol (stock) without air. I had bad experiences with concertina bottles:
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/500-...715286312.html This way I use one per session and the remaining of the 5l solution keeps closed. These bags can be cleaned and reused after use. |
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