{"id":1623,"date":"2014-01-22T09:36:42","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=1623"},"modified":"2014-01-22T09:36:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T13:36:42","slug":"wednesday-22-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/01\/22\/wednesday-22-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 22 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

08:36 –<\/span> Winter is back in Winston-Salem, or at least the cold weather. We haven’t gotten any frozen precipitation and none is in the forecast. Last night, though, the wind chill was supposed to be -4F (-20C), and the next three days are to have highs around freezing and lows in the 10F to 20F range.
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One thing about this business is that we go through bottles by the thousands. The number per kit varies by kit type, but typically when we build a batch of 30 kits that accounts for a thousand or so bottles. So we generally order several cases at a time, with one case being anything from 1,100 to 1,650 bottles, depending on size.
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Our current kits use mostly 15 mL and 30 mL PE cylinders and 30 mL PE wide-mouths, with an occasional 125 mL PP cylinder and 30 mL amber glass. When we start shipping the advanced chemistry kit that mix will change to include a lot more of the 30 mL glass bottles, which are needed for chemicals like concentrated acetic, hydrochloric, nitric, and sulfuric acids, 30% ammonia and hydrogen peroxide, and so on. There’ll probably be a dozen or more glass bottles in that kit, which brings up the problem of breakage during shipping. There’s really no alternative to wrapping each bottle in foam padding. I think this<\/a> is what we’re going to use, one 6×12″ sheet per bottle. The foam is only 1\/32″ thick, but rolling each bottle up in one sheet and taping it should provide enough foam thickness to protect against breakage.
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08:36 – Winter is back in Winston-Salem, or at least the cold weather. We haven’t gotten any frozen precipitation and none is in the forecast. Last night, though, the wind chill was supposed to be -4F (-20C), and the next three days are to have highs around freezing and lows in the 10F to 20F range.\n<\/p>\n

One thing about this business is that we go through bottles by the thousands. The number per kit varies by kit type,<\/p>\n

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