When coating metals, stripping furniture, repairing vehicles, servicing aircraft or tanning leather, dip tanks may be a necessary part of the process. A dip tank is a container holding a liquid other than water that is used for dipping or coating. An object may be immersed (or partially immersed) in a dip tank or it may be suspended in a vapor coming from the tank. The liquid chemicals used in dip tanks are often dangerous, posing both a safety and health risk. These liquids include flammables such as acetone, corrosives such as cyanide and chromic acids and chronic toxins such […]