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Eyup watch peeps i hope we are all well. Does anyone know what these capsules are made from ? The closest i can find to these on the internet is gelatine capsules. 

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8 minutes ago, Neverenoughwatches said:

Eyup watch peeps i hope we are all well. Does anyone know what these capsules are made from ? The closest i can find to these on the internet is gelatine capsules. 

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Answer sorted. Yes they are gelatine,  popped one in my mouth and it dissolved. I now just need to wait for the balance staffs to come out my other end.🙂

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3 hours ago, rossjackson01 said:

Burp!

Washed them down with a cuppa

2 hours ago, RichardHarris123 said:

Did it taste of hair- spring onions?  

My doctor said i needed more iron in my diet 🙄

So no I'm not crazy , well actually yes a bit sometimes. The idea was to increase my storage space, i have so many balance staffs taking up almost a full chest of draws. So i bought these little beauties that hold just short of 1000 balance staff calibers each. Problem is the individual sections only measure 20mm x 8mm which coincidentally happens to nicely fit a size no. 1 pharmaceutical gelatine capsule. After some research i almost came to the conclusion that the capsules would not be suitable for storing highly polished teeny metal parts as they do have a certain level of moisture content since being made from animal collagen. But as i hardly ever listen and take matters into my own hands the need for experimentation took hold. I assumed the original storage capsules would be made from acrylic or some other such very stable plastic material as the staffs i have in these already are very old and have no corrosion. Not being completely convinced of this after spending hours trying to find out what material they originally used i decided to pull one of them apart along with a new drug gelatine capsule. Plenty of poking prodding pulling and ripping with tweezers took place and they seemed very similar. Wanting to go a step futher involved what a gelatine capsule is actually used for and goes through and a tentertive lick showed promising signs that the old capsule was in fact gelatine. Anyway in for a penny in for pound lets go the whole hog and see what happens when i pop it in my gob. Yes indeed the old balance staff and stem storage capsules are 100 %  pharmaceutical empty drug capsules made from gelatine . Now then did i empty that capsule first before downing it ? 🤷‍♂️, ahh whatever i got my answer. 🙂

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