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- From: josh@Happy-Man.com (Joshua_Putnam)
- Subject: Re: cleaning solvents
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.190121.6450@Happy-Man.com>
- Reply-To: Joshua_Putnam@happy-man.com
- Organization: Happy Man Corp., Vashon Island, WA 98070-7399
- References: <4277.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:01:21 GMT
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- In <4277.88.uupcb@chaos.lrk.ar.us> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
-
- > In all of the places I've worked, the solvent tanks had big steel lids
- >that LATCHED open so they wouldn't get bumped and fall shut, which could
- >cause Excedrin Headache #41, assuming your brains didn't just squeeze
- >out into the solvent.
-
- This is a good idea, and most good tanks I've seen combine this
- with fire protection by putting a piece of low-melting-point
- metal in the latch mechanism -- just like the trigger on a fire
- sprinkler. If your head's still in the way by the time the link
- melts, getting hit with the lid is the least of your worries.
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