Making Fina

Cabron

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Hello guys,
I am pondering about the fina preparation methods with the kits they sell. It seems to me dubious that the described procedure with the BA BB does not involve any heating up as sterilization.With regards to that, I am wondering if its a wise idea after the filtration into the empty vial,the vial to be put in the oven for sterilization?
 
Ah one more thing lads, excuse me for the perhaps silly question, but what the hell is "BB" in the solution for making the fina? I mean its BA - buthyl alcohol and BB what is it? Boyko Borisov?[:o)]
 
The abbreviation BB refers to benzyl benzoate, which is a solubility enhancer.

I have never used anything other than submicron filtration and extremely clean handling procedures.

Though there are some bacteria -- a very small minority -- that are so small as to be able to make it through submicron (0.45 micron or smaller) with proper handling that really should not be an issue. If handling is such that contamination may occur, spores are much more likely, and spores require extreme heat to destroy.

While benzyl alcohol is not bactericidal at concentrations used in the final preparation, for methods where the pellets are first dissolved into benzyl alcohol, I expect that if this is allowed to sit for some time, for example a few hours, it will be bactericidal.

I don't do that however as I don't see the need and don't use benzyl alcohol.

If a room with reasonably clean air -- a beam of light doesn't show dust all through the air -- is used, and the pellets are dropped directly row-by-row from the cart into the vial, then this is a clean way of handling it.

Now, if using powder then I would dissolve into BA as the first step, as who knows what the state of the powder is.
 
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To clarify: I had originally written benzyl alcohol, probably out of anticipating writing about benzyl alcohol. When editing for other reasons, I saw that I'd written that and corrected it.

Checking the times, fina lover would have seen the earlier version that said -- making no sense at all -- that BB was benzyl alcohol when of course as he points out, it is not.
 
Thank you Bill. One more thing: which method is better according to you - this how you described it above or the crystal extraction method with methyl alcohol. I heard opinions that with the BA/BB only method, the final product kinda hurts when injected.
Also can you give me some insight about proportions? I read from various sources that the ratio of BA/BB should be 2/20 and from other sources I read that for 20 ml of oil with one cartridge of fina, you should prepare about 3 ml of solvent ( 0, 75 ml BA and 2,25 ml BB) but this quantity is not exactly in 2/20 ratio.
Also should I heat the final solution for final sterilization or is there no need?
And after the preparation is ready, can I store it in room temperature?
 
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Thank you Bill. One more thing: which method is better according to you - this how you described it above or the crystal extraction method with methyl alcohol. I heard opinions that with the BA/BB only method, the final product kinda hurts when injected.
Also can you give me some insight about proportions? I read from various sources that the ratio of BA/BB should be 2/20 and from other sources I read that for 20 ml of oil with one cartridge of fina, you should prepare about 3 ml of solvent ( 0, 75 ml BA and 2,25 ml BB) but this quantity is not exactly in 2/20 ratio.
Also should I heat the final solution for final sterilization or is there no need?
And after the preparation is ready, can I store it in room temperature?

My preferred method is this:

I haven't tried a methanol-based method in probably 12 years but my recollection is that definitely it dissolves all of the brown-colored binder, and so does not at all separate that out; with the filler I tend to think it does not dissolve all or perhaps any of the filler and so does allow separating out some of that.

I don't think a methanol step is necessary. It doesn't remove any of the brown-colored binder: this dissolves right into the methanol. It may (I don't recall as it has been at least 12 years since I've tried a method which included methanol) allow separating out some filler, but the above method doesn't need for that to be done first.

There is no importance to ratio between BA and BB, but rather for each there is importance to the percentage relative to the entire preparation including oil.

For 20 mL of final preparation, 20% BB is reasonable and amounts to 4 mL.

2% BA amounts to 0.4 mL.

A disadvantage of including BA and BB prior to filtration is that these allow some binder to dissolve into the preparation.

An advantage of including them is that a higher concentration can be obtained. If for example wishing to inject 75 mg/day, it can be an added convenience to have a 75 mg/mL preparation, though an alternate approach is to inject 1 mL of a 50 mg/mL preparation each 16 hours or thereabouts: the exact timing is not important so long as it is 3 injections divided into 2 days.

But certainly the 75 mg/mL preparation will simplify and reduce injections in the above example.

An advantage of the 50 mg/mL concentration is that incidence of "tren cough" certainly seems to me to be far less.

I don't use heat for sterilization afterwards, as with clean handling and the submicron filtration it is not necessary, but heating briefly to an internal oil temperature (inside the vial) of say 70 C as a maximum would be okay if having any question. Heating trenbolone acetate tends to cause it to brown, though if very little oxygen is present (the vial is nearly full: it will have to be vented for example with an insulin syringe stuck into it with no plunger) maybe that isn't so much of an issue.

That is better accomplished with a water bath of the desired temperature than with baking at a higher air temperature, which gives very little control and very little knowledge of the internal oil temperature, unless leaving in so long as to actually achieve the same temperature as the oven, which ordinarily is excessively high by those who like baking (it seems to make some feel good, perhaps in a Martha Stewart sort of way.) If I were going to use oven-applied heat, I'd do it simply at the Warming setting such as 150 degrees F and allow say an hour. But really with proper handling methods and submicron filtration there is no need for the heat.

Storage should be at room temperature or cooler and it may well be best to keep in a dark place. I do notice a tendency for trenbolone acetate solutions to darken with time, which indicates chemical change, though not necessarily of very much of the compound.

Preparation being kept for ongoing use should be at room temperature. Larger amounts being stored would ideally be refrigerated or frozen. When needing to be used, they should be taken out at least a day before use is needed, so as to allow precipitated material to redissolve. Occasional light shaking or swirling may be required.
 
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Okay, fair enough. But there is another issue. Since I am from Europe, I have no access to USP grade oil. I checked out at the local grocery store and they have two types of vegetable oil - unrefined cold pressed sesame seed oil and refined grapeseed oil. Which one of both oils I should take and how to sterilize it to make it suitable for injections?:confused:
 
I really can't say. I would have to think there are more oils available to you than that.

Is it that you're looking for the "healthiest" oils, from the viewpoint of dietary intake of large amounts of them?

It shouldn't be looked at that way. It's the opposite situation. Rather than cold-pressed, no solvent use, and various non-oil components from the plant remaining in the oil being a good thing, now these are undesirable.

The most highly processed oil is instead the best choice. Heat and solvent and filtration that removes particles are good things now.

Wesson soybean oil is a great choice.

However, all that said, there doesn't seem to be a high incidence of problems from those using various "healthy" oils.

Even so, I'd recommend at the least avoiding using an oil that is not extremely clear to the eye when viewed through a glass or clear plastic bottle. A light amount of color is okay, but preferably there should be zero cloudiness -- just as easy to look through as equally-lightly-colored water -- as personal opinion.
 
We had another guy from Europe with the same situation and he used some oil from the store I don't know exactly what kind but try to find the thread it's about 3-5 pages back. He's also started his cycle so ask him if his tren is good and sterial no infections
 
Whats going on fellas? I'm new to this forum and been doin alot of reading. I was told by a respectable source that it wasn't even necessary to run the BB in the solution. He said to just run 3cc of BA per cart of Fina; the BA will break it down and sterilize at the same time.

Was thinking bout tryin out a kit but wanted to get some more opinions. To me, I think he is correct in saying you don't need to run the BB. What do yall think?
 
No you don't but bb lessns the pain factor. See bb acts like ba so in reality you could use only bb buuut it won't desolve fast nor will it be a "proper" sterial way of doing things. See fina is not ment for us as you know and it's not clean by any means. I say all ba is best but you'll feel much more pain at site. Split the ba bb but favor the ba slightly. And if you haven't made it befor don't listen to your shmo friends just buy a kit so all measurments are correct. Most kits on the market convert at 75mg/ml. This is plenty if a higher dose is desired just make more ml rather then fucking with the mg/ml at least until you know how much you can handle and what your doing by adjusting #s.
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If one dissolves first in BA, then quite a bit of binder -- which in this case is a brownish colored material -- is dissolved and goes into the preparation.

I don't know of problems caused by the binder, but as I don't know what it is, personally I'd rather not inject it.

The only way a user will notice it is that brownish material may precipitate out with time. If so this isn't a problem. It actually represents the preparation becoming purer.

3 mL of BA per cart works out to 3 mL per 2000 g of trenbolone acetate, or at (for example) 75 mg/mL, an 11% BA concentration.

This is grossly excessive.

For a 75 mg/mL preparation (for example) an appropriate BA concentration is no more than 1.33 mL per cart, giving 5% concentration; and more preferably no more than 0.53 mL per cart, giving 2% concentration.
 
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