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The Hive => Chemicals & Equipment => Topic started by: Freemings on February 17, 2004, 11:33:00 PM

Title: How put a RBF on a hotplate/magnetic stirrer
Post by: Freemings on February 17, 2004, 11:33:00 PM
Title: RBF on a hotplate/magnetic stirrer"
Post by: bio on February 18, 2004, 12:11:00 AM
Use a non-magnetic stainless steel shaped strainer as support and place in a glass, ceramic or aluminum bowl filled with cooking oil (hydrogenated high smoke point) or sand (not so good inmho)
Title: How put a RBF on a hotplate/magnetic stirrer
Post by: ozmosis on February 25, 2004, 08:15:00 PM
You could always use a retort stand coupled with retort clamps and boss-head clamps.
Title: two suggestions
Post by: a3d0a3m on March 15, 2004, 08:40:00 PM
Swim usually just uses a clamp around the neck of the flask to hold it so the bottom of it just touches the top of the hot plate. This works fine with a stir bar. Swim has also used aluminum blocks with round impressions in it. In order to get proper temperature control, swim uses an oil bath with a temperature regulator (an electronic thermometer thing that hooks up to the hot plate and has a probe that goes into the oil bath and keeps the oil at a specific temp).
Title: Thanx
Post by: Freemings on March 16, 2004, 11:51:00 AM