[IanS]

Hi to the chemical community... I am a landlord of a now deceased tenant who was a chemical engineer at the RAE Farnborough in the dim and distant past. Whilst clearing his room, we have found a 7ft 6" high cylindrical structure, and approx 2 feet in diameter,  heavily insulated with dense foam and tape, with two rubber pipes emerging from the top... Apparantly it was a large pyrex test tube, delivered on a lorry, about twenty years ago, and some form of heat generation experiment was being done by WIlf, my late tenant, who lived in the room for over thirty years....  There is also a metal cylindrical tube, about 5ft long, about 8" in diameter with central connecting pipes... which might be a "Multi-Therm" ... If anyone can shed light on what these might be and whether they are worth preserving, please let me know. Equally, they can go free to a good home, otherwise they will go in a skip....

MAny thanks for your help
Cheers

IAn

[Borek]

Hard to tell without pictures, but it sounds like a rectification column to me. Like the ones used for whisky production.

[IanS]

Will try and post a couple of pics in due course....

[IanS]

Am struggling to place images in a post - The image button just brings up  img][/img  and posting an image path and name in between thoise doesnt seem to do anything.... Any help welcome please....

[Borek]

Click Additional Options... below the advanced editor window and attach the image to the post. [img][/img] tags are used to post an image hosted on some other site.

[IanS]

OK Here are pictures of the two objects.. The large one is wrapped in high dsensity foam and then some strapping material, apparantly is a large pyrex glass test tube within , something to do with a heat-generation experiment...?

The green one ...?  ANybody's guess!!

[IanS]

Here's the pic of the bigger one....