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Particle board shelving



Don't worry about their being chemically active - they will fall down long before the offgassing does anything at all to the papers.  We had temporary shelving of particle board upstairs in a temporary space from last September to this past January, and some of the shelves were already bending in the middle.  Most were very short but were still bending under the weight of full boxes!  If this is what happens in 4 or 5 months, with very short shelves holding only 5 or so Hollinger boxes, their materials will be on the floor very soon after they put them up if they use shelves of ordinary length.  This is an incredibly short-sighted substitution and an excellent example of false economy.   Re: the chemical problem - maybe painting them all around with some kind of inert paint would keep gases in???  But that doesn't help if the shelves disintegrate under the weight.

Fred Lautzenheiser
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
lautzef@ccf.org

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