I've been up all night, but I am not at all tired.
Beginning the process of bolting clamps on stands and plugging in hotplates, rooting out thermometers and thermocouple probes, pouring the contents of flasks of oily looking (and rather nicely colored as it happens) liquids into conical flasks and getting ready to drive residual solvent off of them and then pour in some metal dust and a measure of acid and start heating.
Although I'd sooner have used it than not, I can do without, but buggering well can't find the regulator for my argon tanks (inert gas) and I think I'm going to switch to one of my other hotplates, this digital one is a pain in the arsehole because the instructions for programming the temperature ramping (thankfully not critical in this case, if I HAVE to I can compensate) and its error-correction subroutine is in shitting chinese, and the engrish tlansration is barely comprehensible, garbled bollocks. And instead of setting a temperature, and simply setting a second temperature value that if there is a problem, that its off by X number of degrees too much or too little. And expects you to do bloody division equations just to set the fucking temperature. Plus its got something like 3-4 functions in the control system that are present, but not even listed, let alone ex the fuck plained. Maybe in chinese...but am I chinese? no, am I bloody bollocks chinese. I might eat chinese takeout but the names of a few foods are as much chinese as I know, and I don't READ it at all) I might even have to atm, do manual error correction, by measuring the error, and how far its off by, and deliberately setting the wrong temperature to USE the off value and predict what it will be when set to E.g double, half, quarter etc. of whatever because I just tried to set '40 degrees 'C' for the temp value and it ramped up to 40 and carried on going to nearly 70. If it stops there, when heating a flask filled with water I might just work with it, THIS time, and continuously monitor temperature manually using a glass thermometer (which I've been doing to make sure that this annoying fucker of a magnetic stirrer-hotplate doesn't start buggering me about like that, and calibrate the error value manually so I only have to set the temperature, minus the error value.
