1. Make sure to get a Tamper too (if it does not come with the manual pill making contraption). It is totally necessary.
2. Have a good measuring scale. I got mine at a "tobacco pipe" shop. The smallest increment is 10mgs. 100mgs is too big imho. We should be as precise as possible.
3. Get mix colored pills. The main piece of my pill is white and the caps are blue. That way I can tell them apart.
4. Find a good place to sit down and be leaning over... coffee table perhaps. You are going to be there a while. That will prevent spilling.
5. Do batches of 50 or the most they do...to hard to avoid the empty holes obviously...which is common sense.
5. The densities of certain mixtures vary a great deal. the -cetams are extremely light wait. You should only put in 400 mgs of a cetam in an 00 size pill. Most everything is pretty dense. Stick to the 400mg or less per 00 pill rule until you learn the densities. That way you pop 2 pills to make the 800mg dose which a lot of people take. However, you will find more room to spare with other products.
6. RALA actually grows and clumps as you mix it. Mixing it almost makes it worse. Perhaps mix it piecemeal. Weigh, dump and mix fractions with other fractions to get better mixing. So, mix a 1/4 with a 1/4 of the others until you get it all in there. It is weird how you try to mix it with other stuff and it is pretty hard to get into a pill. I actually put some on my tongue and it left some sort of immediate acidic burn... weird, eh?
7. Use a small spoon to fill the pills. Quite often you miss the pills on the circumference. Make an extra effort to hit those. The middle pills fill up quicker.
8. Nootropi (Adam) said evenly push the tamper on the capem quick (in another earlier bulletin post). I might disagree. Push unevenly all over the tamper to really push and find the true levels.
9. Take 2/3 of the mixture and spoon it in the holes--its more accurate than just dumping it in. Then use the squigee card. Then tamper. Then use 2/3 of existing mixture and spoon... repeating the process. It is accurate and fast.
10. weigh for evenness.
I bet pill capping is darn easy now after this first time. I just don't want you to waste your aniracetam as I did since my pills are uneven and of the wrong weight. In spite of my perfectionism with this, the first batch was not up to par.
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