Items that are hazardous and prohibited
from Storage at Sentinel

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Hazardous storage items:

To maintain our storage security and storage safety standards, we are unable to store the following hazardous items.

  • Acetylene (liquid and dissolved)
  • Ammonia
  • Bags and Sacks which have contained nitrates or sugar,
  • Oil greasy or treacly materials,
  • Barium Sulphide
  • Benzolene (Benzene)
  • Benzoline (Benzine),
  • Bi-Sulphide of Carbon,
  • Bitumen
  • Boot polish
  • Brimstone (Sulphur)
  • Calcium Carbide
  • Camphene
  • Camphor
  • Candles
  • Canvas (tarred)
  • Cartridges
  • Caoutchouc
  • Celluloid, Xylonite and other similar substances having a base of Nitro cellulose
  • Charcoal
  • Chlorate of all kinds
  • Chloraide of Lime
  • Christmas crackers
  • Cinematography films,
  • Celluloid
  • Coir
  • Coir Yarn
  • Copper Sulphide
  • Copra, Copra Cake, Copra meal,
  • Cordite
  • Cotton (Whether in fully pressed bales or otherwise),
  • Cotton seed (after ginning),
  • Explosives of all kinds
  • Firewood
  • Fireworks
  • Fulminating Powder
  • Gases in Cylinders
  • Ghee
  • Grasses of all kinds
  • Gunpowder
  • Gunny Bags (see Bags & Sacks)
  • Gutta percha
  • Hay
  • Hemp
  • Kerosene
  • Lamplack
  • Lime
  • Matches of all kinds
  • Methyl Chloride
  • Mungo
  • Naphtha
  • Nitric Acid
  • Nitrates of all kinds
  • Nitritos of all kinds
  • Nitro-Glycerin
  • Nitrocellulose
  • Oils of all kinds (other than Medicinal, edible and essential oils packed in bottles, in cases, or in tines in cases)
  • Paints
  • Paraffin
  • Perchlorates of all kinds
  • Percussion caps
  • Petroleum and its liquid
  • Products (see oils)
  • Petrol
  • PhosphorusPicric Acid
  • PitchPolystyrene
  • Polyurethane
  • Polypropylene
  • PolyethylenePotash, Caustic (Potassium Hydroxide)
  • Potassium Sulphide
  • Rags (excluding clean cloth cuttings)
  • Resin
  • Rockets
  • Rock oil
  • Rope (tarred)
  • Sacks (see bags & sacks)Saltpetre
  • Shoddy
  • Soda, Caustic (Sodium Hydroxide)
  • Solvents (F.P. below 150F, Close Test)
  • Spirits, except portable spirits packed in bottles, in cases, or in jars in cases
  • Stearine
  • Stock of plastic items, wooden furniture, mattress and foamStraw
  • Sulphuric Acid
  • Sulphur Dyes or colours (excluding those packed in airtight metal vessels labelled with a Certificate by the Manufacturers that the Dyes (or colours) contained at least 10 % of inert inorganic sales)
  • Tallow (manufactured and unmanufactured)
  • Tar
  • Turpentine
  • Varnish
  • Vegetables Fibers of all kinds
  • Waste of all kinds