Listen, the ketene lamp requires that you pass highly flammable acetone vapors (and produced methane vapors) through a heated coil regardless of how much you read online about it and how well you think you understand the process.
Any leak of ketene gas (could be through cracks in the glassware, dried-out or badly choosen joint lubricaton, poorly designed fumehood ventilation, or any other minor fault in the setup) is absolutely life-threatening. The effect is prolonged, so you'll probably feel fine the first one or two days, then start to develop dyspnea as soon as you walk or move. It will eventually lead to hospitalization, and you will have irreversible interstitial lung damage which will incapacitate you for life. Only viable treatment is lung transplant. And that's only if you're exposed to a minor leak. If the lamp would happen to explode, through a spark in the coil, the leak would be massive and could lead to fast, painful death with no chance of survival even through hospital care.
That's why not even university labs generally allow this procedure. I would never undertake it, and if I did the setup I would probably loose my nerve when I was about to flip the switch to the lamp. That's my ten cents, among with many others.
And yes, acetyl chloride can be a bitch and probably requires a purchase, but you can also choose the sulphur+bromine route. Bromine is dangerous enough to fool around with, if it's danger you seek
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And you're dead set on producing drugs in a country where drug production holds more risks and higher sentences than mere distribition? It's not that I can't understand the urge to tinker, but the businessman inside me rebels