Here's something awesome you can do with your blowtorch!

If you have ever used a turkey baster to decant saturated solvent at the end of a pull, you know that the hole in a standard glass turkey baster is a little wider than would be ideal. A smaller hole is more precise and the thin NP solvent can flow through a small hole more easily that the basic soup.

If you blast the tip of a pyrex baster with a blowtorch, the melting glass around the opening will start closing and the hole will narrow. Remove the flame when the hole has shrunk sufficiently. If the hole doesn't start closing, try filling away bits of glass from the opening so that he tip is rough to the tough. Then, blast with the blowtorch. You can make the hole really tiny, and that makes it SO much easier to control the uptake of solvent into the baster.

Here is the tip of my baster. The hole is about 1/2 to 1/3 of the original diameter. Talk about control... oh yeah.