Everyone knows that buying the wrong chemicals will raise red flags. But what about other items? Specifically, to what extent does law enforcement monitor the sale of glassware and miscellaneous laboratory supplies (e.g., hotplates)? I assume that law enforcement only investigates orders when they are reported to be suspicious by vendors. Is that accurate?
Re: Glassware and Miscellaneous Laboratory Supplies
fairly accurate. If SWIY purchases speciliized equiptment, say, by mail, without a letterhead, and pay by personal check, it might raise a few eyebrows.
Go to a diploma mill, pay 95.00 dollars, and buy a chemistry degree. That way, you are a "doctor" and you can start an "institute" for a cover.
Most things would be safe to buy, but if LE should come to your home, at least have a good cover story in place. Cops at the door usually won't argue with a diploma in chemistry and you are not obligated to give them your place of employment!
Re: Glassware and Miscellaneous Laboratory Supplies
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Originally Posted by firewall
Everyone knows that buying the wrong chemicals will raise red flags. But what about other items? Specifically, to what extent does law enforcement monitor the sale of glassware and miscellaneous laboratory supplies (e.g., hotplates)? I assume that law enforcement only investigates orders when they are reported to be suspicious by vendors. Is that accurate?
Certain equiptment is watched, but only certain things are watched like the chemicals are. As was mentioned, it is pretty easy to obtain equiptment without permits and such by being presentable enough, so if one is crafty they can normally obtain what they need. Some are paranoid and wont go this route, swim suggests a happy medium. Get stuff that one absolutly shouldn't live without from walk-in stores paying cash, like flasks, combo heating plates/stirrers, general lab equiptment like rubber stoppers and thermometers, vacuum pump if one is needed, scales, measuring equiptment. Then for the stuff that will raise more eyebrows and could be harder to come by in a walk-in store, like the distillation setup, seperatory and buchner funnels, those can all be fairly easily made anyways, for instance companies sell condensers and tubing to make stills for homebrewing setups for alcohol. One can easily buy the condenser, some of the tubing use rubber stoppers and the flasks bought from the walk-in store and make a spiffy distillation setup for chemistry. One can pretty much completly construct a lab without ever setting foot in anything remotely resembling a chemistry supply store, not that it's recommended, or a much less paranoid person could probably get away with buying almost a whole lab from such a store if craftiness is employed.
Re: Glassware and Miscellaneous Laboratory Supplies
I believe Texas is the only state that frowns upon young people learning chemistry (or older people who just like it!) at the expense of drug-manufacturing paranoia.
And buying a distillation kit on eBay probably won't earn you an early-morning raiding party (but there are exceptions)--it seems you have to be really obvious to get the DEA's attention. Again, exceptions occur.
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