[Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection

[Dirk Neumann]

Hi Lennart,

to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this 
purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of 
open storage (depending on the lab chemicals).

For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to 
go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of 
the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, 
containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. 
Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your 
monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to 
objects stored in smaller containers.

If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it 
would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as 
Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that 
stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and 
refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets 
<https://www.lista.com/en/products/drawer-cabinets/>

Hope this helps
Dirk



Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk:
>
> Hi
>
> Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections?
>
> I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of 
> little jars.
>
> Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the 
> stability?
>
> Best regards!
>
> Lennart Lennuk
>
> Head of collections
>
> Estonian Museum of Natural History
>
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