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What goes wrong

It ate the bottle, or the bottle was too big

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390 PET containers on a shelf whose archetype names HDPE and glass.

The resin was wrong

A solvent in PET softens, crazes or splits it. "Chemical resistance is the entire decision, check the resin chart first" is the archetype's own words and it is the first failure.

The liner was never specified

A cap with the wrong liner lets a solvent out slowly and an acid corrode inward. The bottle gets blamed and the liner did it.

The container was over the limit

A gallon of a Category 1 flammable in plastic is above the pint the table allows for glass or approved plastic. Being physically possible is not the test.

A metal bottle substituted for a safety can

The metal row of Table H-12 is not a licence to use any metal container. A safety can is a defined object with an approval, and this shelf has neither.

The glass jar on a concrete floor

Glass is the right chemistry and the wrong material near a vice and a hammer. Where it has to be glass, it has to be stored where it will not be knocked.

The cyanoacrylate that cured in storage

A washed bottle that was not dry, or too much headspace. Moisture is the cure trigger and the container is where it comes from.

The thread locker that cured too

Anaerobic, so an airtight container is the wrong choice. This is the one product in the group where the original packaging is usually the right answer.

The finish that no longer matched

Carrier lost through the closure over two years, so the touch up went on thicker and darker. Fill it full, use a liner, keep it dark.

Test the way it will sit

Filled, capped, upright for a month and on its side for a week, warm, in the shop rather than on a desk. Every failure here appears in that test.

And weigh it

Weigh a filled unit, leave it, weigh it again. A measurable loss is a product that will not be usable when somebody reaches for it.

References

The archetype behind this shelf is ind-chemical: 100 to 20,000 mL, narrow mouth, HDPE and glass, light sensitive, child resistant, poured, with "chemical resistance is the entire decision, check the resin chart first" as its stated reason. All nine leaves sit on it, including the three that store dry consumable parts rather than a liquid.
The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 18 October 2026. The shop consumables shelf is 1,389 rows: 750 containers and 639 closures. 10 mL to 9,464 mL with a median of 120; 85 containers over a pint, 23 over a quart, 3 over a gallon and none over five gallons. 390 PET, 156 HDPE, 127 glass, 76 PP and 1 LDPE, and no metal containers or safety cans. Of the 127 glass containers, 6 are over a pint. 510 bottles, 219 jars, 16 tubs and pails, 4 jugs. 134 amber or dark amber. Closures: 373 continuous thread, 43 dropper assemblies, 39 child resistant, 36 disc top, 27 dome lids, 26 spouted, 19 flip top, 19 lug and twist, 14 phenolic, 7 buttress.
29 CFR 1910.106(d)(2), Table H-12, maximum allowable size of containers and portable tanks for flammable liquids. Glass or approved plastic: 1 pt for Category 1, 1 qt for Category 2, 1 gal for Categories 3 and 4. Metal other than DOT drums: 1 gal for Category 1, 5 gal for Categories 2 through 4. Safety cans: 2 gal for Category 1, 5 gal thereafter. Metal drums to DOT specification: 60 gal. Approved portable tanks: 660 gal. Paragraph (d)(2)(i) adds that "only approved containers and portable tanks shall be used" and that metal containers meeting the requirements of 49 CFR chapter I "shall be deemed to be acceptable". osha.gov
Written from 29 CFR 1910.106(d)(2) and Table H-12, 29 CFR 1910.1200(f) and Appendix B Table B.6.1, and from the catalog as it stood on 18 October 2026. Nothing here establishes that a container is an approved container for flammable liquid storage, which is a word the regulation uses and our data does not support. Fire codes, state plans and insurers sit on top of all of this.