Homebrew Mistakes I Have Made Thread

[TexSon]

See we don't really have a homebrew forum so I put it here.


POB's recent thread made me think of this. Seemed like a good thread to do, so - what mistakes have you made while brewing?


Me personally, I tend to stick to the simple recipes - for example, never tried to remove the estrogen from a synovex conversion - so, I have had fairly good luck. There are enough concise step by step recipes out there (basskiller is full of the best) so brewing should be a fairly straight forward endeavor. Still, mistakes will happen. Here are a few of mine:

1) pushing too hard on whatman filters. they WILL blow out.

2) not having enough filters on hand for a particularly messy brew. you end up running out and having the excrutiating misfortune of finishing off a vial drip by molasses slow drip through a clogged filter.

3) once contaminated a batch of tren so I heated it just below the molecular breakdown point. stuff turned the color of ice tea. filtered it in to the vial and used it all (50ml) with no apparent consequences, but sure as hell looked like shit.

4) not having spare vials in case you screw up.

 

[TexSon]

forgot this....

pushing the carrier a little too far. 200+ mg/ml.

 

[5.0]

Leaving vent needle too deep. All of a sudden oil comes pouring out

 

[Shamrockbear1]

Me always can't get the formula correct for some reason it always comes out a little underdosed it drives me crazy instead of 250mg I get 222mg freaking formulas never add up. Also breaking the big membrane filter by over pumping the hand pump cracks the plastic membrane filters... I'll never do Whatman filter ever again omg took me forever! Hours to do like 200ml..... Hand was hurting...

 

[TexSon]

aaawwww. what a puss. haven't lived until you cripple your fingers using a whatman.

 

[prime]

For whatmans just buy a two gallon bucket and drill a hole on top big enough for the 60ml. Cut our front. Drop syringe through hole. Set up vial. Put 5 pound weight on plunger. Slow press no strain on filter. No mess. Takes about 4 hours.

Theoretically speaking of course.

 

[TexSon]

For whatmans just buy a two gallon bucket and drill a hole on top big enough for the 60ml. Cut our front. Drop syringe through hole. Set up vial. Put 5 pound weight on plunger. Slow press no strain on filter. No mess. Takes about 4 hours.

Theoretically speaking of course.

great. NOW you tell me.

 

[prime]

great. NOW you tell me.

Lol. This method blows the caulking gun out of the water. So I would think.

 

[prime]

Me always can't get the formula correct for some reason it always comes out a little underdosed it drives me crazy instead of 250mg I get 222mg freaking formulas never add up. Also breaking the big membrane filter by over pumping the hand pump cracks the plastic membrane filters... I'll never do Whatman filter ever again omg took me forever! Hours to do like 200ml..... Hand was hurting...

It's appears the the only variable would be powder density and without knowing this exactly , there will be some error at the end product. Judging from the calculators I've seen online of course.

To be 100% exact I would imagine you would take 1g of any substance and heat until melted, take a syringe and draw it up and record the volume it displaces. Then use that in your calculations. I've never tried this method. It just seems straight forward enough.

 

[prime]

3) once contaminated a batch of tren so I heated it just below the molecular breakdown point. stuff turned the color of ice tea. filtered it in to the vial and used it all (50ml) with no apparent consequences, but sure as hell looked like shit.

Question. Is this why tren 5 years ago was ice tea colored? Does tren have a lower oxidation point than the others? I don't see it so dark these days(in online pictures).

 

[TexSon]

Question. Is this why tren 5 years ago was ice tea colored? Does tren have a lower oxidation point than the others? I don't see it so dark these days(in online pictures).

couldn't tell you for sure, except that I have seen people post pics of some awfully dark tren...both bought and home brewed. that was the one and only time I have ever had dark tren. like I said, it worked just fine with no apparent chemical breakdown.


oh man, the caulkgun method. almost forgot about that.

 

[FlyingDragon]

Heating the compound longer can make the color darker. So can adding Test Prop and Sust to a batch of Tren.