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	Having taken a hazmat class, apparently a lot of meth labs use emptied propane tanks to store chemicals for production now, so if you ever see a propane tank (the ones for like bbqs) with the copper fittings turning a nonnormal color like purple you've got some strong evidence against searching around there much longer.

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Re: drug labs
<Reply # 21 on 4/6/2008 5:13 AM >

Posted by Witek

Next time you hold a bullet, put a lighter against it and see what happens. I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
Some might call you an hero even.

LOL

An hero.

Is that from Encyclopedia Dramatica?

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Re: drug labs
<Reply # 22 on 4/6/2008 3:22 PM >

Posted by Krenta
Did you think to Google the company name on the lid of the cooler? They're an "environmental sciences" company based in Texas.

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Small-scale (as opposed to full-time "commercial" producers) meth labs are very easy to identify. Harder to spot are temporary locations where one or two batches have been cooked, and the equipment removed after...

Yeah, I agree, the vials in the cooler are just extraction samples, and the metal coils are columns for a Gas chromatograph machine (GC) judging by the form & fittings.
That last piece of equipment is far more sophisticated than anything you'll find in even the most well equipt illicit drug lab. (The machines they are used in are worth upwards hundreds of thousands of dollars, and those columns go for about $700-800 new, not exactly cost effective or even that useful for a meth lab, despite what the war on drugs fear mongers will have you believe!)
I used to extract samples put them in vials like that and load them on a GC, and yes the vials look very similar to those drugs are sold in.
BTW don't bother going back for the columns, they're next to worthless after they've been customised for an analysis, let alone actually used.
Cool find though! You won't find something like that every day, and probably never again in an abandonment!

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