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The equipment used to manufacture Methamphetamine can be found in a typical household. Stoves, hot plates, camp stoves, electric skillets, blow torches, pots, pans, coffee grinders, hand blenders, kitty litter, trash bags, plastic bottles, jars, plastic hoses and tubing. Chemistry equipment is also used. Beakers, graduated cylinders, separatory funnels, condensers, flasks, and disposable plastic ware.

Glassware
Grinders and Extraction
Filters
Funnels
Heating Source
Venting and Gases

Glassware

Image of condensing tubes laying on blue plastic. Image of a glass pan with chemical residue Image of a glass pan with chemical residue
Image of glass chemistry equipment with connected tubing.
Image of chemistry equipment and glassware
 Image of chemistry equipment

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Grinders and Extraction

Image of a coffee grinder and hand blender Close up image of a coffee grinder with residue Image of a pink powder in a blender.
Image of a mortar and pestal with a pink powder. Image of several bottles of Methyl alcohol, Isopropyl alcohol, and water Image of several plastic pop and water bottles with clear colored liquid and white sediment on the bottom

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Filters

Image of a large trash bag with white coffee filters with a black sludge on them. Image of coffee filters with a red tint and trash around them. One piece of trash is a martini glass.
Image of a red coffee filter with a red powder in it. Image of a tshirt or cheese cloth stained tan/brown with a brown residue in it.

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Funnels

Image of a number of colored and different sizes of funnels Image of a variety of funnels in glassware.

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Heating Source

Image of a box of batteries and equipment on a bed and next to the box a torch  Image of a hot plate with chemical residue and trash surrounding it
Image of two closed beakers with a brown fluid sitting on the burners of a portable camp stove
Image of a number of hot plates, plastic tubing and debris

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Venting and Gases

Image of a closet with equipment and tubing on a shelf Image of a solution cooking in a flask and venting through tubing to a container of kitty litter. Image of an open jar of fluid on a shelf next to other equipment
 Image of someone holding a black plastic trash bag. This is known to meth makers as the Death Bag Image of plastic tubing taped into a plastic container of cat box sand
Image of another set of tubes taped into a bag of cat box sand sitting on top of a childs play pen

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