MESO "Specialized" Testing Group Fund

Ok. I received some good feedback that most aren't interested in donating more on some, as of yet, unknown future testing.

We raised more than my OOP on paper. Sure it took some work (ok, quite a bit), but nice to see what is possible when we come together.

Thanks to the 17 contributors and all those that followed along. Thank you @Sampei (have a fun weekend, lol).

Stay tuned for results on the project and the analysis phase.

$1547 raised (current BTC value).

$1315.50 out of pocket.
And my apology @kain. Should have listed you first. NONE of this would have been possible without you. Sorry Brother. BIG goof.
 
I need some feedback about testing for the presence of polystyrene in US DOM vendor's oils.

Most bottletop filters are made out of / contain polystyrene one form or another. Polystyrene does not work well with neither MCT, BB or BA. It causes leeching etc.

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If you search around the forum, you can see people commenting about bottletop systems leeching/cracking etc. This is just one post, there's quite a few.


Jano seems to be able to test for it ($170 a sample) and i reckon we should test using higher concentration gear as the leeching occurs faster during such cases.

Is there any point in going ahead with this testing?
(1) Is the assumption that US DOM vendors use a better filtration setup?
(2) Nobody has been harmed from this that we know off, gear still works?
Good to go? Nothing to test?

Anything else i missed?
It would be good if we can have some brewers chime in, especially those who use bottletop setups.

I am planning to send the following in for testing, still open to any feedback. Off this list, one is confirmed to be using a polystyrene bottle top filter setup. As to what bottle-tops others use, I don't know, but the vast majority out there are polystyrene.

Arail.5ml MTREN3 + .5ml SDROL50
Pench.5ml TRE200 + .5ml TRA100
Matrix1ml TRA200
Primal.5ml TRA200 + .5ml TRE400
 
I am planning to send the following in for testing, still open to any feedback. Off this list, one is confirmed to be using a polystyrene bottle top filter setup. As to what bottle-tops others use, I don't know, but the vast majority out there are polystyrene.

Arail.5ml MTREN3 + .5ml SDROL50
Pench.5ml TRE200 + .5ml TRA100
Matrix1ml TRA200
Primal.5ml TRA200 + .5ml TRE400
Do you have a positive control to ensure Jano can detect styrene? Positive and negative controls are critical for this type of work. Sorry if I missed it. Catching up.
 
@Sampei

Moving it here.


See comments above.
 
Blind that sample and have also include negative control. My 2 cents.

The issue is that he's not 100% sure if he can even detect it or not..he needs that sample to see if polystyrene will even show up in gcms.

 
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