The Construction & Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories [Paperback]

Uncle Fester (Author), Jack B. Nimble (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Loompanics Unlimited; 2 edition (February 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559501081
• ISBN-13: 978-1559501088
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,547,681 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It worked for me!!!, February 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Construction & Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories (Paperback)

I've read the book 3-4 times and I really like it. It gives a lot of tips on clandestine labs. If you like chemistry, you'll like this book.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars make sure you look further than this!, August 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Construction & Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories (Paperback)

if you are "academically" interested then this book is pretty good stuff, but if "someone you know" is considering the application of any of its content then you/they should be aware that a lot of fester's stuff (although i'm not positive on this one specifically) has been criticized, and in a few specific cases picked to pieces in places like alt.drugs.chemistry on usenet - for it's accuracy and the value of the actual application of some of his instructions. It'd be worth doing some search engine research to see where people have challenged his advice as sometimes misleading and occasionally dangerous.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good food for thought, but slightly outdated., March 11, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Construction & Operation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories (Paperback)

This text is a good primer on what laboratory equipment is essential and desirable. There are proposals given on how to construct most of the necessary equipment. Quite a lot of detail is given to proposals to keep a laboratory safe, and out of sight and smell. There are also some sections on monitoring the activity of authorities by evesdropping with a radio scanner.

The book is beginning to show its age however since quite a bit of focus is put on techniques of improvising one's own glassware. The author's primary supporting claim is that glassware is a "watched" item. This view seems a little paranoid/outdated since the advent of procurement opportunities such as Ebay. However, some of the larger glassware devices described are perhaps interesting, in the "scaling up" section.