[Nhcoll-l] Best packing material for moving of wet collection jars

[Dirk Neumann]

Hi Beth,

I agree with Jean-Marc regarding the cleaning - you will have the vermiculite dust everywhere, and unpacking the jars from whatever moving boxes and removing the dust really is a pain as it is electrostatic.

when still in Munich, we had to transport larger loans and collections frequently between institutions, and we packed things (as Paul suggested) into UN-rated plastic containers and filled the spaces with packaging chips. If you use Corn flips they would soak up and leakage, but of course would melt down. And of course IPM-wise corn flips are not the best solution. But if you can restrict their usage exclusively to the wet collections area, this might be a way to go.

If you have stoppered jars be aware of potential internal pressure building up when temperatures fluctuate - as John indicated.

Hope this helps
Dirk


Am 20.06.2023 um 05:00 schrieb John E Simmons:
The problems with vermiculite are inhaling the dust and that with the vibrations of moving it can easily shift enough to fail to cushion the containers from knocking against each other. The safety officers are recommending it simply to absorb leaks. If your jars are well sealed you could use newspaper for padding. If the potential for leakage is a problem use absorbent pads for packing. Another serious concern is the environment of the storage area. If there is much temperature variation this can result in the failure of container seals. Is the temporary storage area heated and/or cooled? If so, how? How variable is the temperature?

On Mon, Jun 19, 2023, 7:03 PM Elizabeth Wommack <ewommack at uwyo.edu<mailto:ewommack at uwyo.edu>> wrote:
The UWYMV has to do an emergency move of its wet collection to accommodate construction in the museum building.

We are working with our Safety Office to make sure the fluid specimens will be stored as safely as possible. The current plan is to package up each shelf into hard sided moving boxes, fill the space inbetween jars with vermiculite, and store the collection in the flammable liquid storage building until construction is completed.

I have read both Simmons 2014 and Coetzer et al. 2009, as well as gone through SPNHC's documentation on moving of collections. With our very limited time we will do the best we can for inventory, and make sure each jar is topped off before it goes into a box.

I could not find recommendations on boxing and packing material for movement of whole jars of fluid specimens however. Vermiculite was the recommendation of our Safety Office, since that is how they transport jars of chemicals safely. Does anyone know of adverse affects from vermiculite or a better easily accessible storage material we should be using?

Any thoughts and recommendations greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Beth Wommack

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