Please tell me this isn't moisture

[Bender83]

Filtered some UGL prop yesterday, and when I looked at it today, I got slightly concerned. I see what I am hoping is NOT moisture inside the vial.

Procedure was: vent vial with pin, and suck up into syringe, remove needle from that syringe and screw onto whatman filter that was stuck into a new sterile pre sealed vial and vented with another pin, squirt gear into new vial. After all the gear was ran through the filter, I ran ~2ml of grapeseed oil through the whatman to clear the filter.

The gear is made with MCT oil, and I used grapeseed oil to clear the filter (and, I'm sure that at least a half ml of grapeseed oil went through the filter and is now mixed in w/ MCT. Could the oils be separating and causing what I am seeing?

The pic where it looks normal is what it looks like right after you swirl the contents of the vial around. Pic 2 is like 10 seconds later.

Is that moisture, or am I crazy? If it is, how in the hell would it get in there?

 

[PinMeetMeat]

If it was water it would sink to the bottom and you see the drops on the bottom of the vials. I think that's just your oil on the sides of the vial.

 

[Bender83]

I hope you're right man! There has got to be some more opinions on this, am I ok or did water magically appear in the vial?

 

[PinMeetMeat]

Definitely get some more opinions but water does not mix with oil, it always seperate and sinks. That's like 5th grade science there.

 

[bigstretch]

I think it's just the gso mixing with the rest of the gear.

 

[Bender83]

Definitely get some more opinions but water does not mix with oil, it always seperate and sinks. That's like 5th grade science there.

I know, I know. But I just wanted to be sure. If it were water, my mind would be boggled how it got in there.

 

[MANWHORE]

It's beaded up oil ..
So what if I is condensation?

 

[XKawN]

looks like oil to me.

 

[Bender83]

It's beaded up oil ..
So what if I is condensation?

Good to hear that the consensus is that it is just beaded up oil.

Also, why wouldn't it be bad if there was water in there? Everything I put in the vial is "sterile" having been through a .2 whatman, and I didn't put any water in there. So if there is water in it, who knows where it came from.

But like I said, it appears I am being overly paranoid and its just the oil(s) mixing.

 

[jacked44]

As set forth above, its just droplets of oil. Not water.

 

[caveman72]

water changes color as well. I dropped vial once in water had vented needle in it water got in there made it cloudy in with g.s.o. and primo a.anyway