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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • Without actually smelling it, you can look up what solvents are used in its manufacturing. In the case of PCP, it’s organic solvents like ether, benzene or alcohol. Bulk, non-lab grade solvents may contain bitterants that never get completely washed out of the final product.

    The bitterants and any residual solvents should give it a weird alcohol-like smell. I suspect that PCP is also soluble in gasoline as well so it may have a note or two of that smell, depending on the availability of proper solvents. (As an example, diesel fuel is used quite often in cocaine manufacturing and as a result, it’ll have gasoline notes,so the same concept applies. So yeah. If your blow always smells like gas, that is one reason why. On the bright side, it’s probably a bit more pure but no guarantees on that.)



  • Plating through holes is going to be a fun project. There are kits for doing that kind of thing, but you will pay a premium to get everything in one box. The last time I researched it, some conductive ink/paint/glue and an simple electroplating setup was going to be the best option. (The low resistance conductive ink at the time was super expensive, and I was super broke, so I had to ditch the project ) For diy, copper rivets seem like the next best option, TBH.

    Take lots of pictures of your wins and failures in your multilayer board project. I have no clue how you are going to be able to press the layers together while keeping them aligned, so I am super curious how that will go.

    Those projects are super fun, but are a time suck because they tend to have quite a few iterations before they are usable. Sigh. Work and kids basically terminated those kinds of projects for me.