Filtering gear?

[HalfNatty]

Theyre 0.2 micron size. Thats excessively small and a waste of time. 0.8 or 1.2 micron are fine. Even 5 micron seems adequate IME. 18ml needles? You mean 18 gauge i think. Anything larger diameter than 22g is suitable with the filter being what limits the speed.

Using larger diameter needle to draw from your vial wrecks rubber stopper faster and increases likelyhood of small bits of rubber getting into your gear and ending up in your body.

 

disregard the filter advice from this guy the thing you really want to filter out most is any micro organism that might also be floating in your gear  that has visible debris in it. 0.2 micron will do that where the larger filter sizes may let some through. plenty of bacteria is smaller than 1.2 micron and 0.8 micron. if your guy wasnt careful enough to keep debris out of his gear then u can be sure its not sterile.

 

that larger needle size for a vial transfer is fine too even if you want to use the larger ones for drawing since you wont use the old vial again anyway. - for me at least i usually draw 2 mils from my vials so im only drawing from any vial max 5 times and have never noticed deterioration of the rubber stopper

[Boosting]

disregard the filter advice from this guy the thing you really want to filter out most is any micro organism that might also be floating in your gear that has visible debris in it. 0.2 micron will do that where the larger filter sizes may let some through. plenty of bacteria is smaller than 1.2 micron and 0.8 micron. if your guy wasnt careful enough to keep debris out of his gear then u can be sure its not sterile.

that larger needle size for a vial transfer is fine too even if you want to use the larger ones for drawing since you wont use the old vial again anyway. - for me at least i usually draw 2 mils from my vials so im only drawing from any vial max 5 times and have never noticed deterioration of the rubber stopper

The BA kills the bacteria. Havent had an infection in 2 years of making my own gear. You can waste your time pushing through and blowing out 0.2 micron filters if you want. I won't, and i disagree with you that my advice should be disregarded because of some shit you read online.

He should just chuck his rubbish away rather than filter it then put it in his body though.

As for the needle size, once again i dont care what you do yourself. I was offering good advice. The time difference between drawing with a 21g and an 18g is negligible. The 18g fucks the rubber stopper way faster though. For someone crying about the potential for bacteria to be in his gear im surprised youre fine with risking injecting bits of butyl rubber.

So you pin 2ml out of a vial at once? Cool story.

Br0.

[Realtalk]

OP is gone. Not a contributor to forum. He be back when have gyno or infection and ask more question then dissapear again.

Promised log not even once.

[maccaz]

OP is gone. Not a contributor to forum. He be back when have gyno or infection and ask more question then dissapear again.

Promised log not even once.

lol, called it.

 

just about your previous comment, what would actually happen if a tiny bit of rubber got pinned? Im sure its happened before and seems quite possible given drawing with a large needle, but i've never heard anyone complain about it.

 

how many pins you reckon a stopper is safe for? say if you refilled a used sterile vial 

[woody]

On 7/26/2015 at 10:20 PM, maccaz said:

Why prop vs enanthate ? I dont see benefit in prop unless you hate money and enjoy pinning eod

agreed...test is test

[HarryB]

Sorry to inform all of you. .. shredz injected some of a rubber stopper, got an infection and died. Please let this be a lesson to all of you!!! Be careful out there....