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-1 Filtering necessary? Look of the oil? Another sachet thread...

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Hi Fam,

So I recently got my hands on some gear in sachets (test e) and was really looking forward to getting back on the bike...until I realised how damn hard it was drawing from the sachets!

So a couple of questions:

  1. Has anyone purchased sachets recently in the 10ml sachets and what appearance has it given when you draw from the sachets? Mine appears very light and thin.

  2. Do you recommend filtering sachets? If so, I've technically f&^ked up already by drawing from the sachet straight into a vial so if I need to filter it (which I'm leaning towards a yes) I'm worried I'll lose a little gear from the transfer process into another vial.

As stated above, the drawing process was straight bullshit to be honest and at one stage I had to catch a bit of the gear into a clean (I pray very clean) kitchen bowl. Hence why I'm asking about filtration. Thankfully it doesn't look like any crap got into the gear but I suppose with pathogens etc you just cant tell with the naked eye.

All other sterility precautions were taken i.e. swabbing the vial, packets, new syringes/needles for every transfer and each sachet etc.

Please be gentle...

GizmoDuck's picture

Ahhh. Got ya. Thanks man. I’ll retract what I said

Shred_Brah's picture

I would like to know why you don't agree bro. Did you experience something similar?

I also don't see how a filter would not filter pathogens, micro-organisms etc when that's exactly what they say they do??

GizmoDuck's picture

What you mean? Unless they have filters that do that. All the ones I’ve ever used were to keep Glass from entering the syringe when drawing up stuff

Shred_Brah's picture

Hi Rusty,

So as a summary, would the filters I purchased recently (.22 nylon) be enough/not enough to filter this gear of mine from impurities?

I appreciate your comments so far.

GizmoDuck's picture

Ha. Yea. I have plenty of alcohol pads to swab the top before drawing anything out.

Shoot. When it comes to sterility. Don’t wanna risk nothing.

Shred_Brah's picture

Hey bro,

So I've heard about these "Whatman" filters while trawling through posts and sites etc but I don't know what they are?

Are they like a syringe filter or something different?

Without a scientific mind its a little hard to catch on (in practicality) what I'm meant to do or buy haha

GizmoDuck's picture

Now that’s dedication man. Posting and driving. Lol

Shred_Brah's picture

Mate, I also like knowing my gear is 100% sterile and absolute legit. Its not like I enjoy even considering this risk and its mind fucking me.

Its fair to say my gear probably isnt the most sterile now (because of the bowl) but thats why I'm hoping the filtration may assist.

And that video you posted...thats the exact video I used to guide me and it didn't work this time around. As I said in my initial post, I've used this before and it worked so much more smoothly the first time around.

I didn't do anything differently though which is why its so frustrating.