On a more general note, a neat, well managed store, using material rotationally, reduces the risk from
deterioration or damage and ensures against waste from obsolescence when old stock has to be cleared and
scrapped. Such good housekeeping also reduces the risk of electrode mixing. This itself can lead to serious
problems from either welding defects, such as cracking when, say, using rutile rather than hydrogen
controlled electrodes, or property deficiencies if an inferior electrode is used, such as using carbonmanganese
steel on an alloyed base material, which could lead to premature plant failure, with all the
associated consequences.