Re: Protecting MF slides from damage?

[Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Thanks for your reply,
>
>I'm thinking of my own collection which I want to treat carefully and
>occasionally take or travel with me to show friends.
>
>Say you have 25 mounted pairs in mounts.  Do you just put a rubber band around
>them and put them in an envelope or a box?  Does not anyone make a box like
>the old slide viewer trays where you can keep them in a tight place, with a
>lid and held separately so they do not rub on each other?
>
>kk

  For storage at home I use a full sized ring
binder that has 4x6" photo pages. The pages
I have have 3 pockets per side but I only
use one side (that way I can back light the
page to identify the slide). My entire output
of good MF stereo slide still fits in one
binder.  I have a small binder of duds: photos
I wouldn't show to people but I have a reason
for keeping.

  For mailing to people I still use photo
pages, but smaller ones. These are from small
ring binder photo albums that hold a singe 4x6
photo per page side. So if I am going to mail
out 10 slides to someone I use 5 pages and put
a slide in each pocked. Then I wrap the bundle in
a small bit of bubble wrap and put them into a
small box (like a video tape mailing box).

  That's it. No problems with my method so far.

Greg