Not too convenient for group buys, eh?

can survive shipping is no walk-in-the-park either!! And FORGET plastic milk jugs right off the bat. BTDT!! Try paint stores for 1 gallon paint buckets with tap-on lids or 1 gallon tin cans with screw-on caps. Then transfer contents into plastic or glass container on arrival as that stuff is corrosive as hell and will eat a tin can alive in 3-4 months!

Breaking that stuff down and shipping is a PITA!!

I've been sitting here trying to figure out where to get some containers. Thanks for the tip on the paint store, I'll give it a try tomorrow.

If anything leaks during shipment some things, maybe MANY things are gonna get ruined and somebody somewhere is gonna be pissed! I dunno the laws on HAZMAT but I know this product and if it's not catagorized as a hazardous material it should be. Undiluted this stuff will dissolve the skin right off your body!

The USPS is VERY specific about what can/cannot be shipped thru their system these days and they insist on knowing if there's anything "liquid, perishable, fragile or potentially hazardous" in EVERY parcel they accept for shipping. I don't even know if this stuff can be legally shipped via USPS if they were told what it is.

I guess the bottom line, least to me is if I'm going to risk shipping this product I want to be DAMN sure it remains 100% contained within the vessel I transfer it to for shipping. I'm just not totally convinced that re-using ANY plastic container is prudent or responsible thinking. Sure it "might" be fine or would "probably" be fine but then "that" is not the criterion I would rely on when selecting a container for this particular product. Nothing's bullet-proof and anything could fail in the right situation or circumstnce. But I would think spending a dollar or 2 on a "virgin" metal "lined" gallon paint can, with a guaranteed metal-to-metal air-tight seal a LOT more trustworthy, reasonable and responsible insurance policy over anything plastic and re-used. How do any of us know that a container made for ethylene glycol or windshield washer fluid has a sealing gasket within it's lid that will stand up to being in constant contact or submerged in this material for a week or so? Is it a chance one can or should take? At least the gallon paint cans are lined on all inside surfaces with an applied plastc liner and the lid is hammered on tightly. Tape can then be apllied around the outside of lid to further resist lid loosening and/or leakage while most polypropylene plastic containers resist tape being adhered to them.

Admittedly it is a dilemma and I'm prone to deal with it from an over-kill view point rather than a minimalistic one simply due to the potential damage this liquid presents to people, pets and/or property if it gets out of its container between point A and point B.

he used antifreeze containers iirc. Also, when he shipped them he wrapped them in like 2-3 garbage bags and taped the hell out of them to contain any potential spills and lined the box w/ newspaper and papertowels :-P

Worked fine for the 2 gallons I picked up.