We recently had a customer request the manufacture of a UN Certified container with a “36 inch inside height.” The order was received without a detailed illustration indicating where and how the measurement was to be taken. In order to indicate the necessity of specification drawings, we asked the entire SKOLNIK staff to illustrate where they would measure this dimension. Some asked “is the cover on or off? Some asked “do we measure at the perimeter or the center?” And so went the exercise until there were five groups of measurement types. Finally, we provided the customer with an illustration and asked for their dimensional location, and to our surprise, it was different from any of those indicated by the staff! Therefore, this exercise clearly indicates that specification drawings must be provided when specifying any dimension in a SKOLNIK container. If a customer is not able to produce such a drawing, the SKOLNIK engineering staff will be pleased to provide basic documents as a part of the ordering process.
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