Fume Hood/Glove Box

[amor_fati]

Fumes are an ever-present problem in all forms of clandestine drug manufacturing, so I think it's about time we figure out how to deal with them once and for all before someone gets raided as a suspected meth cook. My apartment in particular has an oven hood that unfortunately only blows back into the kitchen, and so the only vent out of the house (beside windows) is the bathroom's moisture vent.

My idea is to essentially to run an air hose from this vent in the ceiling down to a plastic tote. The tote would be built as a glove-box (rubber gloves on the inside, and a plexiglass window fixed over a cutout section of the tote) and would have to be tall enough to work with all manners of containers. It would be vice locked to a table with a non-reactive surface and that's only tall enough for one to work with it while sitting (on the toilet if there's no room for a chair). From here one could attach fans or vacuum parts to aide in exhausting the fumes through the hose. One could also outfit the box's inlets with filters to insure air quality and even use zinc dust and/or silica.

Air flow across one's working area could be a problem, so it would probably be a good idea to direct it around the work area within the box. There are likely a number of ways one could shield the work area from air-flow.

 

[Jorkest]

or you could figure out a way to almost distill off your solvent..and collect it..completely clean..with your extracted material left over..

somebody that knows if this is possible..if you built some sort of contraption..that would just collect the solvent vapors and condense them back into a liquid for later use...it could possibly be a small machine..but im not sure of some of the systems you might need to use to do this

 

[endlessness]

yes SWIM was thinking of this.. making some sort of distill. A vacuum cleaner could be the source of vacuum to speed up the process.

The problem is, how would one prevent the vacuum cleaner from sucking off the fumes to it's inside? Maybe one would need cold water running through the outside of a glass, which would help condensing the solvent in the glass and falling to a container before it got sucked into the vacuum cleaner...

or something of the sort?

 

[amor_fati]

Wow, this is an old thread! SWIM no longer has any use for this since the development of the FASA method.

 

[endlessness]

the FASA method seems great if one has access to it all, and specifically wants spice

but the whole question of solvent fumes is still present if one does not want to limit himself to spice and is interested in xtracting other things like harmalas, 5-meo-dmt and bufotenine, or just still does the good ol STB or A/B