Mein eigenes Labor - LABORTOUR [𝟰𝗞] | JJChemistry

This video was sponsored by easyfloor.at Within one year, 100 million views. An incredible number that I was able to reach with you as a viewer. Before I tell you how it came to such an incredibly high number of views, I would like to thank NyeRed, whose videos have been motivating me for years to inspire so many people for chemistry at some point and to be able to live from it. In December 2020, I opened this channel, JJ Chemistry. I shot the first video, copper coins silver and gold. And the location for this video looked like this. A scene from the off, I'm standing in the basement right now, in which I shot my very first video. By silvering and golding the coins here, you can even see a coin. Original from this first video shoot. I had this wooden frame here, I could attach cardboard to this back wall in white or black for a clean background. If I put the camera here, it looks very clean. And as lighting, I have two softboxes here. And I bought them together with a friend for a completely different YouTube channel, which I wanted to open ten years ago. For me, after the video shoot of this first video, it was immediately clear that two important things were in strong competition with this setup. On the one hand, the quality of the videos. And on the other hand, my personal health. Of course, I could have lit the white phosphor down here. And you would have seen a clean black background on the video shoot. Behind the camera, I would probably have poisoned myself. Meanwhile, and as I said before, through such great channels like Nyle Red, the desire for my own laboratory grew. After the first video, I produced videos for the channel with topics that I could handle outside. At the same time, I built our garden house with flammable materials, rubber runners, shelves and the jewelry piece, a drawer, into a laboratory. In addition, I organized an F90 safety cabinet and a poison cabinet to store my chemicals safely. I was proud of my garden house laboratory and opened a TikTok account sometime in 2021. Unfortunately, the two videos I uploaded received significantly less than 100 views. For me, the TikTok project had died for the time being. On April 22, 2022, I uploaded a third video to TikTok for fun, which was actually intended for YouTube. The video got over 80,000 views overnight. I was shooting more and more videos and uploaded several a week to TikTok and YouTube. After a few weeks, 100,000 followers were on TikTok and also in September the 100,000 subscribers on YouTube. At the same time, I started my chemistry bachelor's thesis in the summer, even though I still had one or two exams open. Somehow, and I can't say exactly how, I managed to pass two exams, one possible exam, my bachelor's thesis and all my social media channels with the various cooperations under one roof, so that I can proudly show you my new laboratory today. Here I am now in the finished laboratory, my personal dream. But just a few months ago, this room looked like this. That was on December 1, 2022. One day before, I signed the rental contract. It followed two months of continuous work. On the first day, I measured the exact dimensions of the room and sent the IKEA kitchen planner to plan the laboratory. And I ordered everything on the mobile phone. So I was able to continue directly with the planning and thus also with the complete electrics. A point that I totally underestimated. The construction work was accompanied by two electricians until the end. With the milled socket holes, pulled lines and prepared cables for later lighting, it was now time for the upholstery. I buy normal and extra fire protection regibs. My two uncles, my girlfriend and I then attached the regibs to the whole room. Without the wooden upholstery, the room looked completely different. There were two other very effective facelifts. First, in January I painted the walls and ceiling with wax. With two days of work, this went very quickly. Everything else took at least a week. From the previous storage space, only the former floor remained. And that was another very important point. For the laboratory, I need a floor that is chemically resistant, anti-static and robust. With a heavy flammable and, oh please, looks good. So Easyfloor.at came into play, who met all my requirements with their different floor panels and were able to pump with a plug-in system that was easy to use. I have no idea about the layout of the vinyl. A simple system like the puzzle was just right for me. The largest part of the floor was laid after one hour. For angled corners and things like heating, I was able to crack the panels, break them and finally cut them with a knife. With the floor laid successfully, the furniture could now be put in. From that point on, it was already very close in a configured laboratory. The next exciting thing was the 320 kg heavy chemical safety cabinet. We managed to put the cabinet with three people on four rolling boards and push it through all the doors. When rolling over the last door threshold, the cabinet was finally in the laboratory and it was able to accommodate my flammable and sometimes otherwise dangerous chemicals. So, it's finally time. We have Friday, February 24, 2023 and we are now going through the entire laboratory together. Yes, this is what it looks like in here. Let me briefly show you. Various work areas in dark, white cabinets, gray floor and various things that are typical and important for laboratories. In the future, videos for this channel will be created here. And I'm really looking forward to it. The first thing you see is the furniture and the floor. We have already talked about the floor in the video. Typically, it can also be installed in garages, for example. It is very robust and in this case, very important, heavy flammable and looks good. The first thing I want to show you is the chemical cabinet F90 from ASECOS. F90 stands for holds for 90 minutes at 1000 degrees, if it burns heavily somewhere, so that the chemicals are protected and therefore no danger to the fire, for example. Or even if the chemical cabinet starts to burn from the inside, then the building is protected. Let's take a look inside. So, divided into three compartments. At the top, for example, all the flammable things. Here in the middle, mostly oxidizing substances. And down here, various solvents. There are still chemicals on the left, which you do not necessarily have to store in such a cabinet. For example, and that is also very good that they are not in the cabinet, my acids and my limes, because they would corrode my thick chemical cabinet from the inside. And that would not be so good. These are ADR boxes for chemical transports. Up here is a filter, an air filter. It pulls all the air out of there, otherwise there could be a flammable and explosive atmosphere in there. Then the air is pressed through the filter and fresh exhaust air is sent back to the laboratory. So, different work surfaces. I would say we just go through from A to Z. In this cabinet there are various utensils for upcoming videos and larger bundles. Here you can see, for example, one kilogram of potassium chloride. Here is silvered cutlery for a video where I get silver from cutlery. Here is lithium. Here are lithium and silver ore in this box. Here is a canister that will also wander into the cabinet. This is hydrogen peroxide. And up here are waste that is produced in videos. These are non-toxic and non-flammable waste. I can store them here until I have to dispose of them. And everything that is toxic and flammable, that comes across in videos and films, goes into such a cabinet. Next, drawers. In this drawer here are things that I need quickly and very often. Things like sodium hydroxide or sodium thiosulphate. Pentahydrate. This is to reduce bromine or iodine, for example. So to make it quasi-harmless, in quotation marks. Various salts. Then here are metals. Magnesium tape, tin metal, copper, copper wire. Things like that. Here are indicators in it. Yes, next drawer. Very, very nice. My luminous box. Here are all kinds of luminous materials in it. This is, for example, a very expensive reagent. Nitrium oxide with europium. This was used in luminous tubes in the past. These are 25 grams and cost well over 200 euros. Then there are nice other metals in it, like indium, bismuth, gallium, gallium. Things like that. And down here are larger threads and my cables. The next things are also very interesting. In this cabinet is my dry cabinet. Everything comes in there that draws a lot of water. For example, different sodium salts or lithium chloride. Lithium chloride evaporates on its own, that's why it's in this cabinet. And here, also very cool and important, my chemical absorber. If you drop something, it hardly ever happens. Above all, it is the chemical absorber for my acid and lye storage containers. My UV radiating pump. Things like that. And here on the left, I'm very proud of it. It's just a washbasin, but it's practical. I didn't have my own washbasin in the garden house laboratory before. I like to come a little closer. It works like a washbasin works. Here on the left I can let things drip off. Here is still distributed water. And this basin is big enough that I can also flush whole boxes in there. Here, for example, is a polypropylene box in which I store various things, until I can clean them at the end of the day. There is something very important in this cabinet. First of all, the whole water installation, which I made myself. Whether that's good or not, I don't know. And here's something important, a eye shower. This is a safety utensil. You definitely need that. If I get acid or base in the eye or something else that's just not good for the eye, then I take this eye shower out and just press the button here. What happens is, my eye is rinsed with it. This is usually done for 10 minutes. Probably very uncomfortable, but less uncomfortable than acid in the eye. Next thing, pull-off. Important for laboratories, without a pull-off, no laboratory, I would say. I can work in here, so that I am protected from this polycarbonate disc. That is, if something bursts in here and explodes, then my face is not hit by it. And in addition to that, the main functionality of a pull-off, when I press the button, the air is sucked in. You can hear it well. The air is sucked in here. That's for the purpose that when I work with any toxic substances, I don't inhale it, for example. Outside it also goes to the activated carbon filter. Works just like in the cabinet. And so you have a fresh activated carbon filter again. Not toxic, not stinking air. A little addition, after I just showed the eye shower and the pull-off, both essential components of the safety concept of a laboratory, I would like to show you, unfortunately I forgot that during the laboratory tour, namely a fire extinguisher. Very important, you also need a CO2 extinguisher. Then an extinguishing blanket. And here is extinguishing sand. Because fire extinguishers, for example, are not suitable to extinguish extremely hot metal flames. A fire extinguisher would, funnily enough, continue to fire the fire. That's why you typically extinguish with sand. I forgot to say that, as well as, for example, that not everything is finished yet. There are still things to be done. For example, the footrests are still missing in the laboratory and in the office. Now you will probably only notice missing footrests in the course of the video. For those who are still interested, I shot an extended version, i.e. a very detailed version of the laboratory tour over the last few months. It's about two hours long. It's for channel managers, I'll tell you more about that in a moment. There you can also see from A to Z what was done here. And that was a lot of work. You will also see what problems there were, what considerations there were. I had to think a lot. And within this extended version, I showed the whole garden house laboratory. I walked through it for a few minutes and showed everything, how I worked there, where something was stored. In addition, the extended version of the laboratory tour also went online at the same time with this video. It can already be found now. But I will tell you more about channel management in the later course of the video. So, now briefly. There are more grinders underneath. Slightly more expensive grinders like distillation equipment, thermometers, small grinders, also an interesting box, a small column, different transition pieces. And down here in the drawer there is an additional filter. That's what an active carbon filter looks like. A trigger, a small pump, a drill, a power supply unit, something like that. Now we come to a point where I had to think a lot while planning. Because in here I will not only operate the knees, but also film. That means there is always a tripod in front of any cabinet. And that will mostly be in the middle. That means there is a tripod in front of it. So I can put things in here that I don't have to spontaneously My melting oven and my normal oven. These are things that I need beforehand. In this cabinet are things that I can also spontaneously need and will. Something like petri dishes, a funnel, small cup glasses, pens, very important, small pistons. Or down here, very important, pipettes. I really need them most spontaneously. Then here a fine scale, a normal scale. Well, that's for hot glue. And down here are reagent glasses. I have already shown that. In this cabinet are gloves, my burner, a few clamps, chemical safety gloves. Here are laboratory tripods and here are my small drawers. Also very nice, I had them in the laboratory garden house. Here is my knife in it. Here I have, for example, potassium, lithium, so potassium and sodium in the videos, magnets, PR paper, very important, magnesium sticks, matches. And down here a stirrer, a syringe, spoon, brushes, a glass cutter, my glasses. Let's continue with these cabinets. That goes very quickly, then we're through with it and we can go to the next room. So this is a drawer and you can probably never imagine a tripod standing here. Here are cup holders in different sizes. Here are my slightly smaller cup holders. You can already see I need more when the drawer is full. And down here is a huge cup holder, 5 liters, I need for example for the silver from silver cutlery extra here in the video. And a 2 liter cup holder. Here again such a spot where a tripod will probably stand very often because it is in the middle of the table. That's why there are things here that I don't have to touch so much. Musou Black, Krimskrams boxes for example, the HS pictograms are inside, a lid, a foil, a few cartons. Yes. And here more empty boxes, gloves, my GoPro, a soup absorber, a funnel, such things. Okay. Oh, one thing is still planned and we have to turn around for that. It is still on rolling boards because it has to be moved because a second cabinet of this kind will come here. The cabinet will even be a little bigger. Also from Assecos. We will fill this gap. It will also be a very, very, well, there will also be animals in front of it. It will be a red safety cabinet. I can maybe show you a prospect right away. But before that, let's go to the office together. The office is here. And also a very nice room. We also put in a lot of time to make it so beautiful, especially for this wall, because the wall looks very special. Because this wall represents the background for my intros. If you look over here for a moment, you can see the tripod. The camera was also on this tripod at the beginning of the video and filmed in this direction while I was standing in the middle of the room. That's why this room is so important. On the floor, if we look over there, you can see my semi-finished desk. The legs are still missing here. That means I will also cut videos in here. And the floor is also a special feature. This is a red path that leads from this room to the laboratory. These are also plates from Easyfloor, just like in the laboratory, because they also swallow the hall and for the same reason, they look nice. On this side of the room is a corner table and it consists of the same wood as my desk. It has two important functions. First, you can see it in the background in my main videos and secondly, I shoot unboxing videos on it. It turned out that a lot of things are ordered, that a lot of things are needed for the videos. They are mostly unboxed, especially chemicals, laboratory glass and other interesting things that I put in the laboratory and that are of course used in the videos. I will use the unboxings to speak unscripted, to speak in a relaxed atmosphere and, above all, to give very cool background information about chemistry, about my videos, about me. Because the videos are not intended for the general public, but for channel members. There are different channel memberships and these unboxings are already included in the first channel membership. The unboxings are a bit rarer, they come every few weeks. Shorts come a bit more often and in addition to that, there are also unboxing videos. If you feel like it, you can think about a channel membership. Speaking of channel memberships, I came up with another cool thing. I want to shoot behind-the-scenes videos. One should come online every ten days, also in the channel member area. I will not work alone here permanently, I will also have the help of friends. If you want to understand how I work, what happens to the waste afterwards in a relaxed context, you can look forward to the behind-the-scenes videos. Before I talk about my head and collar, let's go to my next room. Let's go quickly, because there is not much interesting in here. The biggest room of all. There is a table in here, I also like to work here. Then I have a couch here, which was part of the rooms when I signed the rental contract. I use it as a generous area. I can put everything here. I would also like to have a piano here. Maybe I can do that sometime. Finally, I would like to thank you viewers. Thank you very much that you think my videos are so great. Without you, there would be no lab, because who would be interested in what I film in it. I thank my parents. They supported me with every crazy idea and gave me a voice. Many thanks to a good friend of mine, Tobias, that you helped me with the construction. He built almost all furniture here. An extremely tight performance, I have to say. Easyfloor.at is the company of which the whole floor is here. There is a discount code, JJChemistry, but without Easyfloor I would not have this floor. Therefore, JJChemistry 5%, feel free to stop by the shop. The floor is extremely beautiful. All in all, I'm looking forward to a really nice time. A lot of videos will be created here. If you want to see more and more regular videos from me, you are very welcome to look in the Canaam Geder area. See you in the next video.