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  • Long-term Paint Storage: Just Don’t

    We probably should have noticed this sooner, but …

    Leaking paint can
    Leaking paint can

    Yes, that can really does did contain white paint!

    It cleaned up about as well as you’d expect, which is to say not very well at all:

    Leaking paint can - residue
    Leaking paint can – residue

    Fortunately, we’re not particularly fussy about shelves in the Basement Laboratory Paint Storage Wing.

    Memo to Self: Just throw the nearly empty paint cans out, OK?