{"id":104,"date":"2011-08-06T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=104"},"modified":"2011-08-06T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T15:53:32","slug":"saturday-6-august-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/06\/saturday-6-august-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 6 August 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">11:53 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Well, we&#8217;re now down to zero kits in inventory, having sold the last five yesterday. Barbara is off on a day trip with her friend Bonnie, and I&#8217;m working on more kits while I do the laundry. By far the most time-consuming part is building the chemical block, which contains 44 chemicals and 6 test tubes (packed in the foam block for safe shipping). We do them in batches of 28 because there are 28 labels per page. That&#8217;s 1,232 containers to fill and label per batch, of which 13 chemicals (364 containers per batch) have to be individually sealed with tape to meet small-quantity exemption shipping requirements.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">I&#8217;ve tried using heat-shrink cap bands, but that&#8217;s actually more time-consuming than applying tape manually. While I was looking for a better way to seal caps, I happened to notice a roll of ScotchBlue masking tape that Barbara had bought for a painting project. I tried using it to seal a cap, and it worked so well that Barbara was unable to twist off the cap without first removing the tape. That&#8217;s good enough to meet shipping requirements, so that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re using now.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 2px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11:53 &#8211; Well, we&#8217;re now down to zero kits in inventory, having sold the last five yesterday. Barbara is off on a day trip with her friend Bonnie, and I&#8217;m working on more kits while I do the laundry. By far the most time-consuming part is building the chemical block, which contains 44 chemicals and 6 test tubes (packed in the foam block for safe shipping). We do them in batches of 28 because there are 28 labels per page.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2011\/08\/06\/saturday-6-august-2011\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Saturday, 6 August 2011 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits","category-the-home-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}