We have the suspicion (after several heavy FEDEX failures) they just toss them around ... then the neck easily breaks off. That only explains everything we have seen with completely damaged samples, lost, flying around the dewar etc ... When trying to communicate seriously with FEDEX about these issues - they even did not reply ...
Jan On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:27 PM Patrick Loll <pjl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello community, > > We recently had a dry shipping dewar fail catastrophically (while en route > to the beam line, so, major trauma). I sent it to a company that > specializes in repair and refurbishing of cryogenic tanks, and they told me > it has an internal leak, and hence is not reparable. I was expecting that > the valve had failed, so the internal leak diagnosis came as a surprise. > > Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any ideas about how an internal > leak might come about? The dewar is (was) a Taylor/Wharton CX100, and it > was traveling in its bespoke shipping case. > > Thanks for any insights that might satisfy my curiosity and/or prevent > future mishaps of this sort. > > Cheers, > > Pat > > __________________________ > > Patrick J. Loll, PhD > Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > Drexel University College of Medicine > Room 10-102 New College Building > 245 N. 15th St. > Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192 USA > > (215) 762-7706 > pj...@drexel.edu > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > -- Jan Dohnalek, Ph.D Institute of Biotechnology Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Biocev Prumyslova 595 252 50 Vestec near Prague Czech Republic Tel. +420 325 873 758 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
