this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Can those containers hold hundreds of pounds of... anything?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Yes, that's why they use them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

it couldn’t hold hundreds of pounds of air… or of hydrofluoric acid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Those particular drums are usually used for solids, but with a plastic liner inside they can be used for viscous liquids as well. I wouldn't fill one with a low viscosity liquid, you'd want a plastic or metal drum for that.

Those drums in the picture are really badly filled as well, I'd have rejected them if they'd turned up to the warehouse looking like that back when I was doing QA.