Just got my pill press can I temp. use asprins...

[GaRtRoN]

if i had a logo ingraved on the bar would that make a stamp... or on the bottom?

[PoohBear4Ever]

What?

PB

[Argox]

This is an old thread, but since somebody has dragged it up again, I'll add that I just read in a pharaceutical textbook that lactose should be avoided as an excipient for tabletting amines, because amines will react with sugar.  The exact reaction is not mentioned, maybe somebody knows what it is.  Anyway, I would like to amend my post from last year on how to make tablets and recommend using just micro-crystalline cellulose and 3% magnesium stearate as only excipients when tabletting.  (I don't think stearic acid is necessary if enough mag stearate is used.)  A glidant might be also added, if using a machine and powder is sticking in hopper.  But 72% MCC and 3% mag stearate plus 25% active ingredient should do the trick--NOTE I can't absolutely guarantee this,  because SWIA don't make pills anymore, but I've a strong hunch it will work.

Anyway, heads up on lactose and amines.

Regards

[sunlight]

I've mixed MDMA with sugar sometimes as a filler to make capsules, and after one year at roomp temp it seemed to be like the first day. I don't know exatly if there was any degradation, I didn't analyze them, but the biological assay was as it should be.

[PoohBear4Ever]

Lactose...  Milk sugar?  Guess one should advoid dairy products too after ingestion of said substance...

PB

[Chromic]

Lactose is easy to get (skim milk powder) and compresses very well (somewhat "sticky"). I doubt there's any reaction with MDMA or anything else someone would want to press. The true problem is getting a good press made out of precision drilled stainless steel. A design like this would be perfect for a single pill press:



Shown is a base, with a cylinder with a hole in it, and two small disks inside. The powder sits between the two disks, the rod comes down to push the pill together. This sort of thing is used all the time in the lab to make disks, but something similar and smaller would be handy for making the occassional pill.

PS. Yes, if you put a logo (in reverse) onto one of the disks or whatever, you'd get the logo stamped onto the pill.

[pickler]

http://www.thomaseng.com/tab_index.html

Now that's a pill press!!! Woah

We'll soon FIND OUT if I'm a chemist or not!

[fierceness]

Go down to the meth lab down the street -- swim bets they have LOTS of filler and binder for you to use

[Scooby_Doo]

Argox mate thank you, your post last year was most definitely much appreciated. It took SWIS form getting all sulky and turing into a footstomping sware bear to someone with a big grin.

Lovin your work!  

[Rhodium]

...with a capacity of 800,000 tablets per hour. Wow. Now we just need to find out how to synthesize 100kg of MDMA per hour to keep that monster busy.

[PoohBear4Ever]

The "war" would definitely bee over then...

PB

[UKBEE]

80Kg/H is enough for 100mg dose tablets... unless you want 125mg Doses 100kg/H...i reckon balls to the walls 140mg doses :-)

I love the smell of Ketone in the morning.

[goiterjoe]

it might be easier to synth 200g of LSD in an hour.
If Pacman had influenced us, we'd run around dark rooms eating pills and listen to repetitive music

[Rhodium]

I would get a stomach ulcer from synthing 200g LSD per hour 8h a day, 7 days a week...  

[goiterjoe]

too bad, cause you'd make enough money to send fractal to the best medical schools around and have her take care of you afterwards on your remote island.

You could synth 11.2kg of acid one day a week.  That might require a larger glovebox though.  
If Pacman had influenced us, we'd run around dark rooms eating pills and listen to repetitive music

[Rhodium]

There is a 10+ kg LSD synthesis (by Hofmann) reproduced in Tihkal somewhere...

[William_Omblome]

That would really suck if you dropped the flask by accident.
When the elderly try to fuck around I break their hips.

[Chromic]

I'd simply burn the house down if I dropped a flask like that. I don't think there's any other way to clean up a lab spill like that...

[scarface]

how much do those little presses cost?
BLAZE-1-FOR-THE-NATION...

[GaRtRoN]

what else would work as binder ... Use that little word up there: SEARCH. The board is snotfull with pill posts! LT/