Forum: Equipment

Distilling Vinegar below 90 centigrade. This is in accordance with Dubuis theory of vegetable life which Bartlett also recommends in his book the...

The first piece of equipment to be reviewed is the "RapidFirePro - LP" by tabletopfurnace.com This portable and therefore versatile furnace...

I just got a copper tube and am trying to coil it. So i added table salt in it so that it wouldn't bend inwards. After i made it, i poured water in...

Do you have a name/brand/link for such a stove?

Hi! Please allow me this question here: What kind of material do you use to lute your destillation vessels if you don't have ground glass joints?...

I thought it would be interesting for us to share what our labs look like. I believe we've all seen Axismundi's inverted lab pics :) (which he...

I have been researching the reverberatory furnace lately, and looking at various designs. My understanding of this type of furnace is that it...

I stumbled onto this YouTube video and this person's lab is quite something. I think I'm just a bit concerned if I have to do all that :o ...

I've started collecting the equipment for my work and I was wondering if I should build or buy a heating mantle. I finally decided to buy individual...

Hi, Would anyone have a supplier in Europe for gold leaf. I know your average art shop would have it but I have heard some of it has copper...

I would like to know if the metal disk used for calcination in the post below: http://www.levity.com/alchemy/steve_kalec.html is of the same...

This thread is to help people who want to set up a vacuum distillation apparatus... But since i have no idea how to set up a vacuum distillation,...

I was looking in a website similar to eBay, but local of my country a few PH meters. I am used to the little papers and have used them since I was...

I'm really struggling guys, I invested a fair bit of money $700 into a boiler and alembic hood with condenser, to try and do large batches of...

I don't post this one in "practical alchemy" because it's not really alchemy. I wanted to melt obsidian and make a black mirror... my question is:...

i recall reading ways alchemists would cut glass by dipping string in combustible salts and tying it around the glass where they wanted the break and...

I was reading Petrinus after a friend with zero experience in alchemy told me that he had a 7 pages document by Petrinus (that someone had translated...

Which ones are all the methods to seal a glass flask? i.e, those who followed the "Nav's path"... how did you seal your flasks? (the idea there...

Hi everyone, I was reading this page that is linked from this forum, the "alchemical survival guide":...