[Nhcoll-l] Drums, etc

Thu May 5 11:00:13 EDT 2022

When we moved to our Research Museum Center (RMC) facility, the project
purchased 1000 stainless steel tanks, custom made for us by Great Lakes
Steel Manufacturing, (but using the Delta Design tanks as a model).  They
were, in my opinion, superior to Delta because the gasket channel and
gasket material is better and especially because the closing latches are
more heavy duty. They are stored on tank "stands" on our compact shelving
units. We use a battery operated walk behind forklift to lift them from the
shelf onto a rolling flatbed cart so they can be opened in the lab for
examination of specimens.  There is an example at the end of this youtube
video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITMJ4TNe2O8

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Greg Schneider
Division of Reptiles and Amphibians
Museum of Zoology
Research Museums Center
3600 Varsity Drive
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108

734 647 1927

ges at umich.edu

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www.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/rep_amph/index.html

On Thu, May 5, 2022 at 10:21 AM Bentley, Andrew Charles <abentley at ku.edu>
wrote:

> Tonya
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> The tanks we get from Delta Designs have a dolly with wheels so that the
> tanks can be easily moved from one location to another.  All of our tanks
> are stored under shelving units in our wet collection storage facility.  We
> can wheel them up to our wet lab for opening and specimen retrieval or can
> open them up “in situ” thanks to our dedicated HVAC system that removes any
> vapors from the air.  We will usually open them up and step away for a
> couple of seconds to allow for any buildup of vapors within the head space
> of the tank to dissipate before using the tank.
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> I agree that a “snorkel” unit is a great solution for a wet lab facility
> to effectively extract fumes from tanks but these can be expensive to
> install.
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> Andy
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> *From:* Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> * On Behalf Of *Haff,
> Tonya (NCMI, Crace)
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 4, 2022 8:33 PM
> *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Drums, etc
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> Hi again,
>
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> I do have one question regarding stainless steel tanks, for those of you
> who use them. Even the smaller ones I assume are quite heavy. Where do you
> store them, and how do you access them? Do you have specially ventilated
> areas for them, etc? Right now we try to do our work in a fume hood because
> of formalin fumes (some of our more historic specimens have very high
> formalin concentrations). I would love to know how or if people deal with
> this in their daily operations.
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> Thanks again!
>
>
>
> Tonya
>
>
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> *From:* Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> *On Behalf Of *Haff,
> Tonya (NCMI, Crace)
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 27 April 2022 2:29 PM
> *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* [ExternalEmail] [Nhcoll-l] Drums, etc
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> Hello all,
>
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> I am trying to figure out a nice solution for housing larger specimens.
> Right now we have them stored in either old canning jars (really rammed in,
> not great), or in buckets (don’t seal properly and aren’t archival) or
> drums with rubber (?) gaskets (they seem to leak when you tip them, no
> matter how much they are tightened). I really want a good, leak-proof or at
> least minimising solution, and I feel I haven’t found it yet. It’s really
> frustrating – the drums are even made for brewing, so you would think they
> would form a nice seal, but they don’t seem to. If any of you have a
> solution you like for housing medium to larger specimens (and I actually
> mean anything over a 2L jar), or a solution for making gasketed drums work,
> I would love to hear it.
>
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>
> Thank you!
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>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Tonya
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> Dr. Tonya M. Haff
>
> Collection Manager
>
> Australian National Wildlife Collection
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> CSIRO
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