Flammables in the prep-room
- Thread starter Phystech
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HI
I keep upto 250ml IMS in the prep room. Everything else flammable stays in the store.
I keep upto 250ml IMS in the prep room. Everything else flammable stays in the store.
I keep a small dropper bottle of ethanol, no more than half full, and an even smaller dropper bottle of propan 2 ol, no more than half full.
I don't know how much I've got, its just the class bottles so less than a litre in total. They're in a small metal locked cupboard in the corner of the room away from all other chemicals.
STEMTech
Dave
I have a small metal cabinet for flammables in the prep room, 3 or 4 250ml bottles of each substance only. The bulk containers are in the chemical store flammables section. I keep a small glass bottle of 'dirty' ethanol on the bench for cleaning things, but that's all.
I don't keep it in wash bottles in case it evaporates or the bottle gets squeezed!
I don't keep it in wash bottles in case it evaporates or the bottle gets squeezed!
I always loosen the top of the wash-bottle so that it's vented.
We keep our larger volumes, Winchesters, in an outside store, medium volumes in a locked Flammables cupboard in the larger prep-room and a couple of wash-bottles in the smaller prep-room that is also my office, just for cleaning labels of the odd bit of kit.
Peter Dale
Dammit man! I'm a technician, not a magician!
I have a spray bottle of acetone and ethanol by my sink for washing up. Otherwise, in the chem store's fire cupboard it goes.
As I've got older, I've become more concerned about the accumulative effect on my health from having these chems in my workspace. It's only small amounts, I know, but IMS/IDA over time?
Everything goes back in the store here.
Everything goes back in the store here.
I Have 10-12 500ml stock bottles and about 20 x 100ml bottles for the class room / labs use for Ethanol or IDA That i refill when the September stock comes in the usual , 2.5 ltr and ltr plastic bottles , that gives me plenty of plastic containers every year to store other things in , oh and all the bottles are in my very large flams cabinet, except one 500 ml bottle for day to day use is kept in the fume cupboard
Is it now stuck open or closed? Cause I'd argue one is safer than the other!We have a Flammables safety inspection today, it seems. Typically, I've just broken the key in the one flammables cupboard lock..
locked, but can be opened with a thumb, by rotating the lock. I'll strip the lock in a bit.
With the Group 1 metals, not the flammables cupboard
