Dear Skapegoat,
You're probably going to have difficulty scaling up to 5 gallons using magnetic
stir bars. The largest bars I have used are only 6.3 cm(2.5 inches). They can
stir a liter or 2 reasonable well but 10 times that volume I have my doubts if
it will mix well enough. You would have
I have been working along the same exact line of thinking. Tom is
probably right about stiring 5 gal of oil with a bar magnet. However
where a magnetic stirrer really shines is in mixing methoxide. Stirring
bars work great so long as they are confined to the area of the rotating
magnetic
Hello.
Once I did have this same idea but I did not find the materials and the
electric engine and the electronic control but other people have done the
commercial way for special purposes for laboratory equipment, you could
try a Lab equipment supplier like:
www.coleparmer.com
Cole-Parmer's
Thanks.
I was going to attempt to make my own. Regular stir plates cost more than I am willing to spend.
I'm thinking now it will just be easier to make a stirrer from a drill and perhaps if I scale up later I'll try to make a stir plate for mixing up methoxide.Juan Boveda [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I was thinking of attaching a permanent magnet to an the rotating part of an old juicer. I still want to try it just to see if I can make it work, but I think I will try something a bit more straightforward first...Joe Street [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been working along the same exact line
