Go to a paint store, they should have a nifty little key made just for
opening those cans. ABI used to ship one with every box of reagents that
came in the paint cans. I used to have several, until I had to share the
hood with the peptide synthesis person. Now they become a little pile of
rust in about two months.
--tks
Tim Slattery
Protein Biochemistry and Biophysics Department
Berlex Biosciences
tim_slattery@berlex.com
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Subject: Re: HP-Seq Reagent Hazard
Author: Jim.Bloom.B@bayer.com at Internet
Date: 10/14/98 6:07 AM
Thank you Steve for the "heads up"...you brought up the issue of "paint cans"
so I will ask...does anyone know how to safely and easily open the lids of
those @#?&% "paint cans" short of using a blowtorch, crow bar or sledge
hammer?? Thanks!!
Weather inconsequential: things are getting too serious on this bulletin
board!! By the way the gophers and moles are still burrowing in our back yard
(former croquet court).
Jim Bloom
Bayer Corp
Berkeley
EXNETWRK.abrfreq@BAYERMAIL on 10/13/98 09:27:53 PM
To: "DDA.RFC-822=abrf@aecom.yu.edu/P=Internet/A= /C=us"@X400
cc:
Subject: HP-Seq Reagent Hazard
Fellow HP Sequencer Users:
You may wish to alert your receiving staff to the possibility of
receiving a leaking bottle of R3 (neat TFA) in your next HP reagent shipment.
A leaking bottle of R3 (lot 29-VoJo-JK) was delivered to us today. Although
not a lot of TFA got out, the upper portion of the bottle/label was wet, the
inside of the "paint can" was corroded and the smell of TFA was awful (I can
still taste TFA... Yuck!). The bottle cap was easily tightened a quarter
turn, whereas you cannot usually open one with your hands. (OK, I know someone
out there does not need the TFA bottle "wrench" to open an R3, but I do).
It would be a good idea to "glove-up" and open your TFA "paint cans" in
the hood for a while. And you too can play the lab version of "Trick-or-
Treat"!
Steve
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