Systainer Manufacturing Defects

[Coen]

Sorry to not go further but I have togo and trim my dogs' toenails.

Did they arrive with too long nails?  [cool]

 

[peter halle]

Probably so, but my micrometer was out of commission due to a dead battery.

Peter

 

[Cheese]

I think what the real issue is, that the dogs are English while Peter’s calipers are metric.  [tongue]

 

[peter halle]

I think what the real issue is, that the dogs are English while Peter’s calipers are metric.  [tongue]

My calipers go nowhere useful without a battery.  [eek]

Peter

 

[tdd]

Design feature. Ventilation. Should be grateful.  [big grin]

 

[Coen]

Design feature. Ventilation. Should be grateful.  [big grin]

Hehe. Yeah, I've worked somewhere were they made something that had a rather large completely airtight steel housing; all openings had either rubbers or were caulked. During service this air tightness had to be broken sometimes, and there were frequently customers thinking something was wrong. Because depending on air pressure at time of service and production it would either suck in or blow out a bunch of air  8). But those calls could always be answered easily, as it just proved our claim for air tightness.  [big grin]

 

[woodbutcherbower]

The only ‘defect’ which has destroyed three of my numerous Systainers is that the plastic doesn’t like strong solvents (who would have thought it, huh?).

I had set up a stack of three - with various adhesives in the top one. A litre can of toluene-based impact adhesive was lying on its side and emptied its contents when the lid unfortunately came off. The glue dissolved a canyon-sized hole in the bottom, then through the lid of the one underneath, then through the bottom, then through the lid of the next one, then through the bottom and out on the floor.

It reminded me of the famous ‘molecular acid’ scene in the first Alien movie.

 

[mino]

TLDR:
Never underestimate the power of Toluene to munch through stuff. Your brain being one of the "stuffs" to munch through.

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ROFLMAO!

The only real event that ever justified that acronym for me! Appologies! Sorry! Feel the pain!

ADD:
The first thing I learned at my Chemistry labs was to never ever allow any bottle/canister to lay on its side. Regardless how sure one was of its seal. Period.

On topic:
Toluene is gonna dissolve pretty much any plastic with unsaturated bonds in its structure. Laymen: most of the plastics you know. Exception going to (pure) polyethylene and polypropylene, both being too soft and kinda not practical for much more than holding the various organic solvents in check ..

Over here /in Europe/ many of the "EuroBoxes" are made of "hardened polypropylene" which in theory should survive Toluene. But would still deform facing it. These are (and can be) made to nowhere the precision the ABS based Systainers are molded to.

EDIT:
Please please do provide the photos - if you can. This is the event that deserves to be docummented! Aliens rule!

 

[Crazyraceguy]

Yeah, that's kind of like Phosphorous or Magnesium burning its way back to hell. Nothing can get in the way!