Here I am reviewing "Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture" 1996 Uncle Fester from Loompanics.Com This is not just another cookbook but contains about 250 pages densely packed with info. It also covers MDA, Ecstacy and others. There are some really surprising "starter" formulas for example the two catalysts Palladium black on Carbon, and Palladium on Barium Sulfate.
Chapters are:
1. Chemicals and equipment
2. Leuckart-Wallach reaction
3. Phenylacetone
4. N-Methylformamide
5. Methamphetamine
6. Industrial size production
7. Phenylacetone from B-Keto esters
8.Phenylacetone via tube furnace
9. more Phenylacetone
10. Phenylacetone from Allylbenzine
11. the Bomb
12. Reductive Alkylation without Bomb
13. Methylamine
14. Ritter Reaction: Amphetamines direct from Allylbenzene
15. Methamphetamine from Ephedrine or Psuedoephedrine; Amphetamine from PPA
16. Methcathinone
17. MDA, Ecstacy XTC, and others
18. Ice
19. Calibrating Vacuum
20. from Allyl Chloride and Benzene
21. Doctoring sick crank
22. Phenylacetone from Benzene and Acetone
23. Extracting 1-meth. from Vicks inhalers
24. avoiding trouble
25. Legit exxcuses for chemicals

If anyone has some other books, then please describe and name them.

pah, i know what the festering uncle does for a trade, and his electro meth have been widely ass holed in the past, some stuff has creditable use, as the pill gakk bockers modled there tests on his method from the book, , they never thought about placebos cure ever comming up,

festers stuff doesent all work im afraid, but some of it does, he still seems to be messen with sudo, from over at the zoners,

i would avoid using that book as the law, as if a newbie, try worloks or some other synth first, as only people that have experience can point out the far fetched methods that fester claims to do.

i agree that it is intersting reading material, but there is alot of bunk info in there.

ex. The all to well known meth from vicks inhalers method. sure it gives you meth but not what you think you gonna get if your a newbie. (it is inactive)

Uncle Fester is a joke. I trust Eluesis more than him.

i like Zwitterion best, probably because his personality and educated risk taking(e.g. no fume hood on the Cyanogen Bromide in his apartment)
Always love shulgin thought i wish i could understand everything he does and why he does it better
Fester just sucks. Come on- levo methamphetamine? Why throw shit like that in there? I'd like to see the book though to see how much is legit because that's all i got from the post.

OK folks my cards on the table. I am not interested in cooking Meth; rather some friends want that improvised Palladium black on carbon that Fester has on page 170. Does anyone know if its for real?
I know Festers Sodium metal extraction on page 177 is bogus. Read's "Industrial Chemistry" gives the working temperature of a Lye based electric cell at 600C. Thus you would need multiple gas burners and an arc welder; not just Fester's hotplate and battery charger.

since the book is worthless as a whole can you tell me where to find this page 170 so i can evaluate it?