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gander
03-19-2003, 11:35 AM
You guys kinda touched on this on a thread below titled heating Fina. I WARM the Fina before I filter it, but what I was wondering about was the actual baking at the end @ 160 for a 1/2 hour to "sterilize". I am not concerned about heating the Fina to a "coffee temp". My question is with the BA in the solution, why would one have to "sterilize" it by baking? Wouldn't the BA take care of anything? I started thinking about this when someone started talking about Mexican gear being "DIRTY". I mean what could it have in it that the BA would not take care of. I mean what is in a vial of steroids? The steroid powder, oil, and the BA - right? I mean I hear people say "that stuff gave me an abcess" or infection or "it swole my ass up" or whatever. I tend to think that it more likely could have been unsanitary injection procedures. I mean I know human grade is better, and Mexican gear can be underdosed, underfilled, and have a high BA content. But does it really possibly contain anything that would give a person an infection? Just to be clear, I am not talking about baking gear to "possibly" lower the BA content.

Harvey Balboner
03-19-2003, 01:15 PM
On the fina conversion, your right it is unnecessary to bake it, thats what the BA is for.

I've never used mexican gear, so I'm not really sure what the problem is. I think part of the swelling with them is too much BA, which is the same problem a lot of people are having with EQL.