been contemplating a magnetic stirrer/hot plate but then today this happened!

Hello,

Congrats on your invention. Though you haven’t told us what you will be using it for. Is it made to mix the ingredients for a cake, pancakes, creppes, ohmlettes, pudding, mayonaise? It’s an important detail. Cause if you thought about using this during a dmt extraction, well, it was a bad idea... should’ve call it the worst, but I’ll let you be the judge of that.

The reason I’m saying your idea is not safe is because your electrical tool/equipment uses sparks in order to function. Not only are those sparks visible through the end of the unit while powering it on, they could very easily ignite your solvent while mixing it, more so if splats or unwanted drops take place while bursting that machine. Please be careful and think of your own safety before attempting to employ this method. This is not even by far a mag stirrer, or even as safe.

Also, that plastic tape doesn’t look to good over there either. That will unstick and fall off at the first solvent contact, not to mention what high corrosive basic solution would do to it, the stuff that would leach out of it and so on...

I advise against using it, totally, in extractions and look for safer methods.. the list of reasons could go on..

ah, there's always a naysayer

I have that exact same cordless drill. Literally the same exact one. xD

Mix up a pie somethin fierce

Yea well it worked great. The tape never touches the solvent, not even close. It may not be the ideal solution but it def works. Im still here. Nothing blowed up. Also i use a lime tek so a magnetic stirrer is not an option or i woulda already got one. You just gotta use a little common sense and things will be just fine. Oh and btw thats not just some plastic tape.. Dat Gorilla Tape.

haha cool man, yea i just took my "pie" outta the freezer this morning.. seems the heavy mixing increased the yield somewhat. although the ease of use factor makes it well worth the 4 bucks for a cheap whisk to mod

This is very good advice, that's really dumb to use a drill that produces sparks when working with flammable solvents. Horrible idea, thanks for being the voice of reason! This could literally get someone killed or have their house burned down.

Sometimes you have to let people be wrong.

Not a good idea.

Please don't attempt BHO, OP.

when working with solvents i always have a fan blowing across my workspace to quickly dissipate any fumes and work in an extremely well ventilated area. Not sure about the drill sparking because i havent seen any but if it did it would be a very slim chance of ignition with the cross breeze and the small amount of solvent i am working with. the main use is during the a/b phase. no one said u gotta use it for pulling.

Hotplates arent as fancy as ppl think often.
For example they are utter trash to mix anything that has a consistency of anything more viscous than oil and they also suck for solids in suspension.

True all, I just have a pretty hard fast rule when it comes to possible ignition sources and flammable solvents. Mostly because I'm very clumsy and also cannot divine when Murphy's law will come into effect. With my luck, there would be a splash, a little flame,then I'd drop something and it would break spilling stuff all over and then the whole world is on fire.

I guess folks assume that it's used for pulls,because well it's unnecessary otherwise.

Stirring is an issue for many of us, but I've found that good shaking,although a pain,gets it done.

my friend uses q21's lime tek and the media is very thick so it can be a pain to stir. this helps a lot

True that. Mechanical stirring is always the go-to in these types of situations.

Yes. I was disappointed my SH-2 wasn't even able to stir MHRB tea (to resolve naphtha-water emulsion). But it's still very good to stir a liquid culture or for making lye solution.

problem solved! i bought a new dewalt brushless drill which doesnt produce sparks!

You know that brushless drills still have sparking in the breaker from the switch on it.

Breaking a high power current from the battery will yield sparking.

^^Still a nice drill though