Yes, I do supply on request MSDS sheets and quite a blessing they are as
they have done as much to protect the supplier as much as the buyer.
Chemicals in some ways are less of a problem for the supplier than other
items might be. A light banks could unexpectedly short out and electrocute
its user. Nitric acid does what nitric acid is supposed to do, spill on you
and it'll do some damage.
Bob's comments about the order form are well taken. Anyone who has seen our
order forms in the past will recall all of the disclaimers on it. The
problem today is that most orders are either by fax or phone, I'd say over
90%. "Mail order" is really a thing of the past. How do you put a dislaimer
on a phone call?
I once worked at a place called Spectrolab in the 60's we had a sister
company called Heliotek in the same building, some kind of contract or tax
dodge thing, I guess, really the same company. We made solar cells and solar
panels, one of the first companies to do it. We started getting letters from
a company called SunPower Inc. asking all kinds of weird questions, most of
which hit upon company trade secrets. The fact that the company had enough
knowledge to ask the questions meant they were on the leading edge. Our
management got scared and started thinking of a buyout or merger but were
puzzled as they could find no info on the company. Long story short. It was
a 16 year old high school kid working on his own, he just dreamed up the
name and had stationary printed and did his letters on an IBM Executive
typewriter. Seems he had read all the literature in the field and had done
some experiments on his own including hitting on some of the leading edge
pet ideas of our science team.
Point being, you can never know who is on the other end.
Thanks for the support
BTW we have Glyoxal and Deionized Ossien and Tween 20 in stock. Any other
"weird" stuff we should carry?
Dick Sullivan
Bostick & Sullivan
Santa Fe, NM