[Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection

[Dirk Neumann]

I Lennart,

I doubt that jars will be stable on this sort of shelves; also, how much 
would be the total allowed weight on such shelves? The design doesn't 
seem to be suited to carry huge weights.

With best wishes
Dirk


Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk:
>
> Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars.
>
> This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel 
> shelf plates finished with powder coating
>
> but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on 
> the picture in my previous letter.
>
> Best!
> Lennart
>
> *From:*Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM
> *To:* Lennart Lennuk <Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee>
> *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection
>
> 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?
>
>     mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg
>
>     Best regards!
>
>     Lennart Lennuk
>
>     Head of collections
>
>     Estonian Museum of Natural History
>
>     +372 6603404, 56569916
>
>
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Dirk Neumann

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Dirk Neumann

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