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Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil??
    #19484780 - 01/28/14 04:46 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

I wrapped the inside of my pressure cooker in aluminum foil, and then used micro-pore tape to seal the sides of my 8oz gladware rounds.

I DIDN'T WRAP THE ROUNDS IN ALUM FOIL...

I made holes and used micropore on the top for GE. Will the pressure cooker force air and water through the micropore tape?

Will not wrapping them (even though I wrapped the inside and bottom of the PC) move water inside the rounds, or cause any other problems?

I figure I covered myself by wrapping the edges in micropore tape to seal each round individually.

I didn't realize I didn't follow the tek for this part until after the PC was at full pressure and temp.

It's been in there 10 minutes. Do I take it off and wrap them, or leave it and realize that I'm just being too anal??

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484788 - 01/28/14 04:52 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

I read some other posts and see that the foil is there to prevent large water droplets from entering. I guess my micropore tape would serve that purpose as long as it doesn't fall off (which the way I wrapped it has a very LOW possibility of happening).


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484807 - 01/28/14 05:08 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Was hoping for a quick answer with URGENT in the title.... I might as well say fuck it and see what happens at this point.


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484808 - 01/28/14 05:08 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Cool it, wait for the pressure to drop. Remove them and wrap tops in tin foil. Its necessary otherwise water gets in and ruins the moisture content of what you're doing. It probably already has.

I believe the only exception is with the twist top zip lock containers.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484811 - 01/28/14 05:11 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Why on earth would you wrap the inside of a pressure cooker with foil?

The other stuff doesn't make sense.  No, the pressure cooker won't force water, steam, or anything else into the jars.  Never wrap a jar or other container fully with foil during sterilization.  Why would you wrap the edges of the containers with tape?  If you're worried about steam getting in, you should instead be worried about mold spores getting in later.
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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #19484824 - 01/28/14 05:17 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

RogerRabbit said:
Why on earth would you wrap the inside of a pressure cooker with foil?

The other stuff doesn't make sense.  No, the pressure cooker won't force water, steam, or anything else into the jars.  Never wrap a jar or other container fully with foil during sterilization.  Why would you wrap the edges of the containers with tape?  If you're worried about steam getting in, you should instead be worried about mold spores getting in later.
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:lol: I totally ignored everything else. But yea OP :whathesaid: remove all the tin foil and tape. I hope I said to only wrap the TOPS in my post, if not I will edit it.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: magickspore]
    #19484832 - 01/28/14 05:25 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

umm...

Ok, let me explain a bit.

RR: The plastic tek CALLS FOR wrapping them in foil (8 oz rounds Gladware).

Magickspore: They are the pop-off lid plastic containers, and to prevent moisture from getting inside and ruining the percentage of my exact mixture, I wrapped them well with micropore tape.

They are sealed all except for the fact that micropore-covered GE holes are on top (2x 1/4").


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484840 - 01/28/14 05:27 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Oh, and to answer about wrapping the PC with foil, I read that wrapping with foil prevents the rounds from touching the sides of the pressure cooker. I just didn't want the metal to plastic contact to warp the lid or something. I'm not sure what temp PP melts at.

Using micropore tape also was a means of preventing the lids from popping off in the PC as some other users have had happen when following the plastic tek.


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See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

Spongiform's Plastic Tek
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Stan Getz/Bill Evans Masterpiece
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NO CUT, PERFECT MONOTUB HOLES!

Edited by SynapseLotus (01/28/14 05:29 AM)

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484849 - 01/28/14 05:34 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Any idiot can make a post and call it a TEK. That appears to be what is happening here that got you so screwed up.  I've long thought we should censor the word 'TEK' when noobs use it to post their less-than-bright ideas and act like they've been doing it successfully a long time.

Case in point: How on earth can the sides of the pressure cooker which are exposed to normal room temperature be hotter than the steam within?  The idea that the sides would melt the container but the steam wouldn't should make you look elsewhere for growing instructions. FYI, steam isn't hot enough to melt pp5 containers even though they suck for mushroom growing.  Use jars with proper filters.
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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484853 - 01/28/14 05:36 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Lol micropore tape will still let water in. It will get soaked and mess up the moisture content. Again it probably already has.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: magickspore]
    #19484866 - 01/28/14 05:44 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

I initially went for the traditional RR method, but glass jars are simply IMPOSSIBLE to get where I am (I have wasted days looking for them). I saw that many other users have been using the plastic tek successfully for 100+ jars without a single contamination. They also offer much faster colonization and the ability to shake after a few days, which is not quite as easy with jars, and it has no chance of ending with shards on the ground. It should also be stated that the plastic tek does not mention lining the PC with foil, I saw that somewhere else.

RR: What is the reason to not wrap something completely in foil during sterilization?

Also, the physics of the pc being hotter than the steam also made my brain do a backflip, but as this is my first grow and I have spent a month reading every post on here and having much trouble getting everything together, I wanted to be as anal as possible.

I built the most badass glovebox you have ever seen, pictures coming when I get the final fruits.

I am also looking forward to using RR's agar direction to clone my best and go onto a monotub for my second grow.


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See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19484892 - 01/28/14 06:00 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

but glass jars are simply IMPOSSIBLE to get where I am (I have wasted days looking for them).




Nonsense.  You're in a major U.S. city. I guarantee I could fine glass mason jars within half an hour of your house at a dozen different stores.  Boycott walmart and find a real store.  I live an hour from the nearest town and it only has 600 population, but there's two or three different stores with Ball and Kerr mason jars.
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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #19484897 - 01/28/14 06:02 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

You see my IP address as in the US because I am hiding behind a proxy.

I am more than 3000 miles from that location, I assure you. Tomorrow my location will be somewhere else.


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By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19486856 - 01/28/14 03:47 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Is there a reason the plastic tek calls for shaking? Is this just outdated info? I know you can't shake the verm if you use the RR method but which is the best overall using tyvek and shaking or just using the verm layer and leaving them alone?

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: Happy Littletree]
    #19487200 - 01/28/14 04:55 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Well, the gladware rounds don't like to sit perfectly flat and tend to fall over (especially if you stack them). due to this, I assume a verm layer has a certain probability to get screwed up.

The tek calls for shaking after around 4 days, simply to speed up myc growth. As I am using silicon injection ports and spore tape with a PC, I don't think the verm layer is necessary. 

Looking again at the tek (which is the 'GLADWARE FTW' in my sig), perhaps they are not being completely wrapped in aluminum foil. It is just them sitting in the PC that makes it look that way and it is actually just the tops?

Well, they were pulled out of the PC and seem to be fine.

I did the injections in my GB and am now hoping for the best. We'll see what happens and when/if they get fully colonized I'll post images.

Cheers,


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See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

Spongiform's Plastic Tek
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Stan Getz/Bill Evans Masterpiece
The most important video of this generation
NO CUT, PERFECT MONOTUB HOLES!

Edited by SynapseLotus (01/28/14 05:35 PM)

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19487219 - 01/28/14 04:59 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

:thumbup: glad they look okay

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: Happy Littletree]
    #19489797 - 01/29/14 03:36 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

So,

RR: I did a second load, after removing the foil you thought was so ridiculous and guess what? I had 7 PP5 containers melted to the spacer plate. It looks like wrapping the PC in foil wasn't such a BAD idea after all huh?

Thanks, I wouldn't have taken it off if you weren't so adamant about its stupidity.






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See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

Spongiform's Plastic Tek
My gift to the Shroomery
Stan Getz/Bill Evans Masterpiece
The most important video of this generation
NO CUT, PERFECT MONOTUB HOLES!

Edited by SynapseLotus (01/29/14 03:38 AM)

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19489854 - 01/29/14 04:22 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

:knockmeonmyass:

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19489873 - 01/29/14 04:39 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

SynapseLotus said:
So,

RR: I did a second load, after removing the foil you thought was so ridiculous and guess what? I had 7 PP5 containers melted to the spacer plate. It looks like wrapping the PC in foil wasn't such a BAD idea after all huh?

Thanks, I wouldn't have taken it off if you weren't so adamant about its stupidity.








the foil had nuthing to do with them melting


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: Happy Littletree]
    #19489884 - 01/29/14 04:46 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

u should use the pp5s from grocery stores, blue lids, screw on is thicker, snap on u will need to wrap in foil (but are not as large for grains, as u seem to be doing).  u were using something like chinese soup take out containers, which are much thinner, and prone to melt.

pasty easy agar tek

wrap lid with foil, or with the tek, wrap the ENTIRE container with foil











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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: blindingleaf]
    #19489910 - 01/29/14 05:05 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

How is that possible, when the spacer plate is under water?

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: monoculture]
    #19490048 - 01/29/14 06:51 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

They were pp5. I also used the pressure cooker exactly like the first time. If it was the steam temperature being too high, then why did only the ones on the bottom and touching the sides melt?

The ones stacked on top were totally fine and I just finished noc'in em' up.


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19490055 - 01/29/14 06:54 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Water was raised till right above the plate before PC'ing. As steam evaporated off, the gladware was touching it, though I never expected this to happen. I already re-wrapped the inside of the damn PC (AA 915) with aluminum foil as it was the first time.


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See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

Spongiform's Plastic Tek
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Stan Getz/Bill Evans Masterpiece
The most important video of this generation
NO CUT, PERFECT MONOTUB HOLES!

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19490066 - 01/29/14 06:58 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Luckily I got to them just in time and was able to peel them off the bottom plate without damaging anything.

The ones that melted were a combination of Gladware rounds (same as in your photo above) and some other containers that were also PP5 (of course I checked this before buying them).


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See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

Spongiform's Plastic Tek
My gift to the Shroomery
Stan Getz/Bill Evans Masterpiece
The most important video of this generation
NO CUT, PERFECT MONOTUB HOLES!

Edited by SynapseLotus (01/30/14 10:52 AM)

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19490068 - 01/29/14 07:00 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

RR: Check my IP address again and you will see I'm in "Argentina" today. Haha. Still no where near my real location.


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See my shadow changing, Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

Spongiform's Plastic Tek
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Stan Getz/Bill Evans Masterpiece
The most important video of this generation
NO CUT, PERFECT MONOTUB HOLES!

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19490836 - 01/29/14 10:58 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Well then you did something else wrong. I do a bunch of the glad mini rounds every few days and all I do is wrap the lid, a layer of jar bands, metal spacer plate, inch of water, PC at 10psi for 35-40min. NEVER have a problem. And I'm not the only one hundreds of us do this almost everyday and have never had problems. It has to be human error (usually is).

This is only what I do for best results PC at 15psi 30-45 min.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: magickspore]
    #19491562 - 01/29/14 02:05 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

yea i raise my grate up with 3 glass 1/2 pint jars.  magic, are u just doing agar at 10psi?


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: blindingleaf]
    #19493364 - 01/29/14 07:40 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Well the first difference is that I'm PC'ing at 15 psi, not 10.
I thought anything under 121 degrees (boiling point at 15psi) doesn't kill everything. Any reason you are using 10 psi?

The first time I did it I also had a layer of foil raising the bottom plate off the bottom about a half inch. The second time (the time that melted) I didn't have that but the temperature was the same.


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Soften this old armor, hoping I can clear the way.
By stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow, 46 and 2 are just ahead of me.

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Edited by SynapseLotus (01/29/14 07:41 PM)

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19494992 - 01/30/14 04:43 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

weird.  stick with 15psi for grains.  10psi..dunno..probably for agar or LC's but with those, i still use 15psi, just less time. 
anyway, just got home from work, and before work i did a round of 4 pp5's (twist lock, blue lid) in the PC for 40 minutes at 15psi, turned off, heat, let cool to 0 then left apt.  came back and all is well, no melting or anything.  i have a gas stove, and thats why i raise the plate with three 1/2 pints (dunno if anything bad would happen if i didn't, just never tried) and they were not covered in foil, just unscrewed a LITTLE bit.

if ur using those take out containers, wrap in foil, or (what i would do) switch to store bought containers.  they last way longer, less waste going to landfill, less worry about if it worked or not, and less hassle when they stall (how do u "lightly" unscrew a snap lid if growth stall with grains inside it to allow for more GE?).  sry if u already using store bough pp5's/gladware.  i only saw pics of the melted ones.
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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: blindingleaf]
    #19495047 - 01/30/14 05:16 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

All my containers were PP5. The "takeout" containers you referred to are also PP5, just a different brand than ziplock or gladware. All the ones on the bottom melted, regardless of the brand.

I suggest you continue using a larger spacer from the bottom as you have been. If you put only the spacer plate between them, then run it for as long as I did (60 minutes), perhaps the result would be the same as mine were.

Well, I have learned a few important lessons.

1. Microwave safe, doesn't mean 'metal to plastic contact in a PC' safe.
2. Even the experts sometimes give bad information.

Thanks for all the help guys. I hope this assists other plastic tek users in the future.


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: blindingleaf]
    #19495055 - 01/30/14 05:19 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

not all cookers go to 15 psi, mine goes to 10 and I add 30-45 mins cooking time to make up for it.

It can be done with grains without a pressure cooker as well, but you'll have to add 6hrs 30mins to the original 90mins.

OP/jar melter: find something else to put in the bottom of your pc.
I've used curled up balls of alu foil with great success,
and I've had (what felt like) near death experience with towels and cloths on the bottom.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: spacechildo]
    #19495083 - 01/30/14 05:33 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Towels and clothes are very un-recommended by roadkill. I used balled-up aluminum foil the first time to raise it up a bit and that seemed to work fine. It only melted after I took all that stuff out.


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19495097 - 01/30/14 05:39 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

then just keep using them alu balls until you get a rack of some sort. if you want the rack. :shrug:

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: spacechildo]
    #19495251 - 01/30/14 07:01 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

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1. Microwave safe, doesn't mean 'metal to plastic contact in a PC' safe.
2. Even the experts sometimes give bad information.




FACT: Steam at 121C isn't hot enough to melt pp5 containers.  Either you bought falsely labeled shit or you're doing something else stupid.  Don't blame  experienced growers who have never melted plastic in their sterilizers for your fuckups.

I've posted over and over and over again that you can't have plastic touching the sides of a pressure cooker IF you're using a gas stove.  The reason is that the flame curls around and up the sides.  This raises the temperature on the sides of the PC during the warm-up period to well above the temperature it will be after steam is produced.  This doesn't happen with electric stoves, only gas. 

The idea that aluminum foil, one of the most heat conductive materials in the world would suddenly become an 'insulator' simply because some idiot wrote a 'tek' and called it such is just dumb.  It's even dumber to blame others for your mistake because you think aluminum is an insulator.

However, I'm certain no more than 2 weeks will pass before someone else will melt their shit trying to follow a stupid 'tek' and blame others yet again.  Use glass jars and proper filters to allow for shaking with grains.

I'm seriously thinking of censoring all these stupid teks noobs write by pulling an idea out of their ass and then pretending like it's proved method.  All they do is screw up other noobs who follow that instead of something which actually works.
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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #19495267 - 01/30/14 07:10 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Does this mean the rolled up alu foil balls does NOT work to keep your jars off the bottom of the PC?

Maybe I was just lucky while using it before I got my rack?

It's just confusing because he said he wrapped the inside of his pc with alu-foil which makes no sense.
Not sure if you (RR) are referring to my advice of using balls on the bottom or his attempt to "insulate" his PC...

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: spacechildo]
    #19495745 - 01/30/14 10:19 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

RR, again.. I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO JARS UNLESS I PAY A SHITLOAD OF MONEY TO IMPORT THEM.

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FACT: Steam at 121C isn't hot enough to melt pp5 containers


  NO ONE ever said it was the steam that melted it. Please read before jumping on someone's back. I have said over and over again it was THE ONES IN THE BOTTOM OF THE PC. If it were the steam then ALL of them would obviously have melted.

1st try: no melt
second try: (after removing the foil) MELT.
Explain the lack of logic behind that conclusion. I just PC'ed another load now IN THE SAME WAY AS THE PREVIOUS 2, only this time with the foil again, and there was no melting at all.

Aluminum is a good conductor, but it is crinkled and thus reduces the direct conductivity of heat from the sides (as you yourself said is hotter due to the flame) and lowers it just enough to match a temperature near the steam in the PC. I used to build custom water cooled computers and there is a reason we use a thermal paste between the CPU and the water block, so that there is direct connection between the two and thus better transfer of heat. Any minuscule gap between two mediums will reduce the transfer. Removing the plastic from the plate right above the direct flame at the bottom also has an obvious effect of reducing the heat into the plastic. 

Again, I'm not in the location my IP shows, so don't start yelling that it's "so easy to find wide mouth jars."

People may not be as idiotic as you first assume.


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19495781 - 01/30/14 10:27 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

I am not "insulating" my PC or putting on a tin hat. I am simply creating a small spacer between the super-heat-transferring solid aluminum body of the PC and the PP5 containers.

RR: You yourself said not to put the glass right near the bottom of the PC as it can overheat the verm and cause problems. Why is this overheating concept suddenly so illogical just because I am using plastic?


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19495796 - 01/30/14 10:32 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

:facepalm:

So you are using a gas stove. 

It's best not to expect one to type the same answer over and over again so you don't need to spend a few minutes with the search engine.  I've made it clear that when using a gas stove, you either have to keep the flame lower or prevent any plastic from touching the sides due to the flame curling around the edges.

One of these links is from 2006, and one from last December, supposedly in the thread you're following. There's at least 100 more times I typed the same thing in between those two. It's best not to blame those here to help because you failed to notice or make use of the search engine.  Good luck now that you have it sorted out. :thumbup:

I'd still get jars.  I've traveled the world and have never found a country where grandmas don't can fruits and berries.
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Re: URGENT: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19495797 - 01/30/14 10:32 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: URGENT: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: Icyus]
    #19495860 - 01/30/14 10:49 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

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I enjoyed reading your post more than RR's.

There are so many things to read that once we get one answer, we will stick to it until we know otherwise. I read a guide about the precise practice of PC'ing and followed it to a T. Now, if I had known that there was such a difference in using a gas or electric stove, I would have LOOKED IT UP.

We are not robots RR. I think a month and a half researching before beginning was sufficient. I read enough about the plastic to know that tin foil on the inside of the PC is a good thing, until you so nicely turned me off of the idea and gave me a cooker full of melted plastic.

Please get off the "I can buy wide mouths here". I have lived here 5 years and never seen a damn one! I can only import them, but $60 for 12 isn't a bargain. Perhaps you would like to donate some?


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: blindingleaf]
    #19497550 - 01/30/14 04:58 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

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blindingleaf said:
yea i raise my grate up with 3 glass 1/2 pint jars.  magic, are u just doing agar at 10psi?




I would like to clarify my previous post. I do ten because my weight only holds 10-11psi. I will be buying a weight for 15 soon but can't at this moment.

I haven't had a contamination because of my sterilization tek yet. When I DO get one I will add time. I don't expect others to follow suit. I got to these times outta trial and error and they work for me. When explaining the process to noobs I still advocate 15psi for 30-40min (agar).

I'm still honing in my times for wbs. At the moment I tried 2 and 1/2 hrs at 10psi (2 pp5 and 1 jar). I expect them to fail but they are also to wet so I'm throwing them out anyway.

For agar and jars at this moment I don't cram or double stack (maybe 1 on top). When I do load up its only a few. My time increases 10ish min for each agar container I add in. And like 30-45min per jar. Then I slowly just bring the time down till I get a contam in a control. Sometimes when I'm nervous I have multiple controls.

Since this has gone on long enough I'd like to add. I take a while to bring the water to a boil. I also take the time (15 min) to make sure I have a PC full of steam before I put my weight on.
And again this is what works for me so results may vary.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: magickspore]
    #19498845 - 01/30/14 09:28 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Magickspore:

I have the AA 915 that holds 15 quarts. The thing is a dream compared to doing all those complicated processes to get a good result, especially having to do such small loads at a time.

I got mine off amazon and then had a friend bring it on the plane here (They also don't sell any AA PCs where I live).

I think the total was around $180. For as much time as you spend doing all that stuff, just get one and you'll wonder why you didn't just buy one in the first place.


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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19503462 - 01/31/14 09:13 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

Just checked today and a little over half of my 50+ containers are growing myc! It took about 5 days to start growth, but I don't see any contams so that is a good sign.

I got a bit impatient and re-inoc'ed about 20 of them after 4 days, so I'll have some weird mix of what comes up between Equadorian and B+. I wonder which will prevail...

Even the first ones I noc'ed up (with only about half a CC in each of 2 holes) are growing well after about 7 days.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: SynapseLotus]
    #19503679 - 01/31/14 10:07 PM (10 years, 11 months ago)

I use (used) the pp5's with screw on lids, and mine do not even haze or flex after they have been pc'd full on at 15 psi for 90 minutes.

pp5 isn't any plastic container you get your hands on and pee pee # 5 on the chinese receipt.

personally though I'd use a pour recipe from PC'in the agar, pouring in a SAB in sterile petri's. my gosh I love how they look so pristine, and clear (though I've been adding a half drop of food dye to the agar making it all awesome looking)...I just like staring at them honestly... I love them. So pretty...my precious....but the pp5's do work, and re-usable.

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Re: Plastic Tek Without Aluminum Foil?? [Re: RandomFX]
    #19504713 - 02/01/14 04:43 AM (10 years, 11 months ago)

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pp5 isn't any plastic container you get your hands on and pee pee # 5 on the chinese receipt.






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