AAARRGGHHHH!! Who the FUCK wants to work with oil baths?? They take forever to heat up, they're messy, they can fucking tip over and spill hot oil all over you, and then when you're done, they take forever to cool off, and if you're impatient like me, the hot oil will start to melt the plastic bottle the oil came in when you try to pour it back in.
Fuck that!
I'm getting a fucking heating mantle for every size rb flask I have, and I'm never using a fucking oil bath again!
So what are bee's thought's on heating mantles? I know I've seen MaDMAx bitch about oil baths a couple of times.
But how well do they allow magnetic stirring? If they're just those cloth-looking ones, with no metal casing, and you don't have a piece of shit stirrer, it should work fine, right? And if there's no regulator, then a dimmer switch should work, shouldn't it? Those are rated at 120v, right?
It is seductive, way too seductive. -Eleusis