Outdoor SH Storage?

You have more faith in humanity than I do sir :nerd_face:

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Yep @CaCO3Girl . Long as we keep the riff raff ppl working for the government so we can kinda keep n eye on them ,and not have them out making the world go round,we’ll be better. Not great,but better. :wink:

I’ve tried 3 different dollies…as soon as the barrel gets tilted the tires blow out.

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@Patriotspwashing… Solid rubber or run flat tires brother …

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I fill them all with foam. Wheelbarrows, dollies, lawnmowers. Works great. I have a wheelbarrow behind the shed that won’t hold water, but the tire looks new. Ha!

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Ya High tech red neck. Lol

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@CaCO3Girl Once again I apologize for asking questions two years after the fact, but when I get my drums of SH, they never have vented caps. If drums of SH need to be vented, wouldn’t they come with vented caps? I am not doubting you, just confused. When I open the bung, it never seems to have any pressure built up behind it. Is venting your SH storage just an extreme precaution?

Your mistaking pressure for fumes.

The vents are soooooo small in the bung you probably aren’t noticing them. SH starts degrading the moment it is produced. In a nutshell it starts off as sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), with some water (H2O) and some sodium hydroxide (NaOH).

It’s not a stable mixture. That’s why it weakens with sunlight, heat, time…hell, don’t sneeze on it wrong it could drop a percent!

The sodium really likes the chloride molecule, they are very happy together, but oxygen is always butting in…so it kicks it out forms good old salt (NaCl). The more time that goes by you have more salt and less NaCLO. Where does the oxygen go? It doesn’t go hang out with the water, the water is happy being H2O, if it added on another oxygen it would be hydrogen peroxide, that’s not stable either and needs to be vented. It can’t go join the Sodium hydroxide, it’s totally stable and all full, and trying to keep the NaClO from degrading.

So the oxygen has to go away…and if it doesn’t have a way out, it will build up and look for one.

If you don’t believe me, next time you are done with a gallon of milk or a 2 liter of soda, fill it up with your SH solution, put the cap on it, and sit it in a corner and don’t touch it…and watch it become a weeble wobble as the gas tries to escape and can’t find a way out. Let us know how it goes :wink:

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