it's a mackie mix 8 and it was brought in there with the explicit understanding that it might end up nailed to the wall as a warning to nicer gear

the syrup explosion tilts me more than the lost mixer, tbqh. Don't pour hot syrup into cold jars.

I have 200 proof food grade ethanol available because of other work I do here

unfortunately sugar's solubility in ethanol or isopropyl is... not good.

it was fully finished syrup at about 200F which caused a mason jar to explode and rain glass and syrup all over everything. I figure the lost syrup sets me back $25 which is 1/3 the cost of the mixer.

It was not on, and I am optimistic that it's cleanable, but won't really know until I pop it apart.

A friend was willing to jam during a boil but unwilling to bring any decent gear inside the shack, and rightfully so, so I grabbed the cheapest stuff I had which included a $150 oscar schmidt telecaster clone and an ipad connected to a breaking MIDI kb and we messed around for a while. I only have a short snippet of video recorded which shows my friend's face, so he'd probably rather I not post that, but if we do another session I want to tape more.

We'll find out, I am going to take it apart and clean with distilled water.

I have a 24" 2k monitor, gigabit fiber etc down here. I work from home, and can work from a boil just as easily, it just makes for long days because of startup and shutdown time on the rig :)

Yea, I have gone a little too far with all that on top of vacuum lines and a pump, pretty sure my bucket-and-oil-lamp-using neighbors think I'm a heretic.

I think I'm just going to nail it to the door, as a warning to other, nicer gear to stay away