The Oppressive Weight of Storage Containers

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depends on what you're storing

cardboard

Let's just say you're storing your eyelash collection

Plastic

Always

I have storage spaces in two cities/countries

Plastic prevents mildew/fungus/moisture

Closes better and throw some of those thingies for clothes and moisture and you're good to go

Could really do with Meccano still being around so I could create storage units.
Was thinking this especially with external hard drives which overheat when stacked. So would benefit from a cage system where they were separated.
But could see similar frameworks being useful for other item storage.
Bunging something together in wood might get one part of the way there too.

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best exploding whale

• *A stranded whale in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia decayed until it exploded. Locals reported that its blubber "hung in the trees for weeks."[20]
• *Florence, Oregon, United States in November 1970, a dead sperm whale was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass.
• *Explosives were used to kill a beached humpback whale 25 miles (40 km) west of Port Elizabeth on August 6, 2001
• *a southern right whale that beached near Cape Town on September 15, 2005 was killed by authorities through detonation.
• *A whale carcass adrift in the Icelandic harbour of Hafnarfjörður was split in two by a controlled explosion on June 5, 2005. The remains were dragged out to sea; however, they soon drifted back, and eventually had to be tied down.
• *On September 2, 2010, a 31.2-foot (9.5 m) humpback whale that had been stranded for two weeks near the Western Australian city of Albany was killed by the Department of Environment and Conservation using explosives.
• *A sperm whale exploded in Við Áir, Faroe Islands on November 26, 2013, when measures were taken to avoid a larger explosion by perforating its skin. Footage of the incident was shown on Kringvarp Føroya, the national Faroese broadcaster.
• *One of three sperm whales that died after becoming beached on the Lincolnshire coast near Skegness, United Kingdom in January 2016 exploded due to a methane build-up, after a marine biologist cut into it while trying to perform a post-mortem.[30]
• *on January 26, 2004, in Tainan City, Taiwan, the buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale caused it to burst.

Not sure why but it’s hard for me to go backwards in their catalogue from that point. The production is just so lousy and thin and a lot of the melodies and tropes are undistinguished.

History

Rheem Bennett Displacement Meter at Deer Hollow Farm at Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve in California
The company is named for its founders, brothers Richard "R. S." Rheem and Donald "D. L." Rheem. They were the sons of William S. Rheem (1862–1919), former Standard Oil Company of California president who led the construction of a major oil refinery for the company in Richmond, California.[7][8][9][10] The brothers initially began manufacturing galvanized steel drums in 1925 as a co-partnership with Pacific Galvanizing Company in Emeryville, California.[7][11][12][8] A third brother, William "W.K." Rheem, helped finance the company at its start.[11][8] The Rheem Manufacturing Company was subsequently organized on January 22, 1930, buying out Pacific Galvanizing. Rheem also acquired the Republic Steel package company, which also had a plant in Richmond.[11] Republic Steel made boilers and tanks, which allowed Rheem to enter the business of water heating. The company acquired the John Wood Manufacturing Company of California, which produced automatic gas storage water heaters, in 1931.[11] The company expanded overseas to Australia in 1936, building a plant in Sydney.[11][13] The Australian operation began making steel shipping containers, including drums, in 1937 and water heaters in 1939.[11]

Rheem also makes tankless water heaters that can run on LPG