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Ascension
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My homemade stirrer (video)
#5740800 - 06/12/06 06:06 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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I got this idea from a writeup off another member on here, so thank you to him.
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=5566971&page=0&vc=#Post5566971 This is where I got the idea from.
I've been trying like crazy to make an LC, and havnt had any success so I thought I'd make up a stir plate to see if that can sway things in my favour.
The video was taken with my phone and is in Mp4 format, so incase you cant see it, heres a photo I took with my phone aswell.

I took a fan out of a computers power supply and blu-tacked a magnet from inside a harddisk into the center of it.
Then I just grabed a plastic container I had and put it over the top, The jar sits ontop of the plastic container with a paper clip for a stir bar. Took about 15 mins to make!
I took a power connection out of an old nokia phone, and attached it to the power cables for the fan, This way I can just hook my phones battery charger to the fan easily.
I have made 3 LC's with no luck for reasons I have no idea, incubator is at 84F, I tried honey didnt work, I tried a 4% mix of dextrose and light malt extract, been over a week and only some tiny myc at the bottom. I injected a jar with it and nothing, so I think its a dud. So hopefully this baby makes the difference.
Edited by Ascension (06/12/06 06:17 AM)
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MESCALATO
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: Ascension]
#5740806 - 06/12/06 06:10 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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ahh groovy
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zeegos
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: MESCALATO]
#5740840 - 06/12/06 06:52 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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very nice, im thinking of making one myself. One of my disk trays is nackered and im thinking of ripping it out. Thats pretty unlucky with your LC attempts. My first go went alright accept i didnt stir it and it formed mycelium spheres. Maybe it could be down to the water your using, some tap ater isnt that good for LC.
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Ascension
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: zeegos]
#5742849 - 06/12/06 06:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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Hmm I've never though of the tap water to be a problem, could be the chlorine in the water. But I know our water is pretty clean.
But I suppose its worth a shot, do you think a water filter would be good enough or would store brought stuff be needed?
Its really getting annoying not being able to make an LC
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JoeMama
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: Ascension]
#5743058 - 06/12/06 06:52 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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If you are concerned about the chlorine content then either use some distilled water, or just let your tap water sit out for 24 hours. (To let the chlorine evaporate) This is what I do for my fishes. -Me
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: JoeMama]
#5743257 - 06/12/06 07:32 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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that sucks you aren't having luck with LC's everyone Ive made has worked great. hell i scraped some gills from some incredibly dank and visual shrooms i bought put it in my incubator at around 81-83 and within 2 days there's a nice size ball of fuzzy white mycelium. i already inoculated my first two shroom jars this afternoon, knocked up a bigger LC jar and still have a small sample encase i have something unforeseen happen. my oysters are colonizing like mad.
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Edited by MrMolotov (06/12/06 07:35 PM)
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: MrMolotov]
#5743758 - 06/12/06 09:16 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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While I think it's awesome you made your own mag stirrer, it sounds VERY loud. It should be exactly as silent as a computer fan running, no louder.
Sounds to me like the fan blades are hitting something.
splif
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: splifner180]
#5744698 - 06/13/06 01:10 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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One tip. make a cover for the whole thing so it sits in the darkd while spinning
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Ascension
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Re: My homemade stirrer (video) [Re: majlo]
#5744765 - 06/13/06 01:49 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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The whole thing sits in an incubator, so its pitch black all the time.
Plus this is just held together by blue tack, one day if I can be stuffed ill make a proper casing for it, but... "if it aint broke, dont try and fix it" :p
splif, the noise you hear is from the stir bar clinging against the jar, the fan itself is super quiet.
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