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Chain lube decant Tubeless sealant Climbing chalk Small bike part The regulated question is about the first two And the table keys on the panel Whether a given product is in scope is not ours to say The archetype describes the wet half at the wrong scale And it describes the dry half not at all Read the table section before choosing a bottle References

Only the wet half can be a hazardous substance. That is where the table applies.

Chain lube decant

A lubricant moved from a workshop bottle into something that fits a saddlebag, or sold in small bottles. Oil or wax in a carrier, and the carrier is what decides the hazard classification.

Tubeless sealant

A latex emulsion with particulate, poured into a tyre to seal punctures as they happen. It also contains ammonia in many formulations, which has its own consequences for the container.

Climbing chalk

Magnesium carbonate, loose or in a ball or block. Dry, fine, and it goes into a chalk bag rather than staying in whatever it was bought in.

Small bike part

Spares, bolts, cleats, chainring bolts, spare links. A sorting problem identical in shape to the model parts property, at a slightly larger scale.

The regulated question is about the first two

A consumer product that is a hazardous substance under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act carries a signal word and a statement of hazard. How large they print is a table.

And the table keys on the panel

Which is the finding: the container is chosen first, the container fixes the panel area, and the panel area fixes the minimum height of the warning in fractions of an inch.

Whether a given product is in scope is not ours to say

Classification depends on the formulation and its properties. A water-based wax lube and a solvent-carried drip lube are not the same question.

The archetype describes the wet half at the wrong scale

store-liquid-decant is 15 to 120 mL, a travel decant. The shelf median is 237 mL and a workshop bottle of chain lube is bigger than the window.

And it describes the dry half not at all

Chalk is a powder and bike parts are solids. Narrow mouth, flip top and fine mist say nothing about either.

Read the table section before choosing a bottle

Because the order matters: panel first, then type size, then whether your design fits. Doing it the other way round is the failure this property is about.

References

The archetype behind this shelf is store-liquid-decant: 15 to 120 mL, narrow mouth, flip top or disc top or lotion pump or fine mist, PET and HDPE, cold fill, thin, aqueous, poured, with "travel decant, leakproof under pressure change is the whole requirement" as its stated reason. It describes the two wet leaves at a travel scale, and the shelf is workshop sized: median 237 mL against a 120 mL ceiling.

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The cycling and climbing shelf is 972 rows: 383 containers and 589 closures. 5 mL to 2,000 mL with a median of 237; 17 containers at 15 mL or under, 25 at 30 or under, 77 at 60 or under, 132 at 120 or under. 174 HDPE, 147 PET, 42 PP, 20 glass. 188 bottles, 173 jars, 17 tubs and pails, 3 jugs, 2 tubes. 137 white, 72 clear, 69 natural, 37 black, 33 amber. Closures: 381 continuous thread, 39 child resistant, 36 disc top, 26 dome lids, 26 spouted, 19 flip top, 13 spice caps, 11 liners and sealing discs, 9 phenolic.

16 CFR 1500.121, Table 1, minimum type size by area of the principal display panel, where type size is "the actual height of the printed image of each upper case or capital letter as it appears on the label". For the signal word: 3/64 inch for a panel of 0 to 2 square inches; 1/16 inch for over 2 to 5; 3/32 inch for over 5 to 10; 7/64 inch for over 10 to 15; 1/8 inch for over 15 to 30; and 5/32 inch for over 30. For the statement of hazard: 3/64 inch up to 5 square inches; 1/16 inch for over 5 to 10; 3/32 inch for over 10 to 30; and 7/64 inch for over 30. law.cornell.edu

Written from 16 CFR 1500.121 and 1500.14, and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. Whether a given lubricant or sealant is a hazardous substance under the Act is the formulator's determination, not ours. No point-size conversions appear here because the regulation specifies fractional inches as the height of a capital letter. Climbing area rules on chalk are set by land managers and vary site by site.