Heat Seal Mounts/ Good use for Cardboard Slip In Mounts

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Ted Gosfield writes:

question 1) ?comparative experience with the RMM cardboard mounts vs
Reel-3d cardboard mounts for Realist format pairs.  I don't like the
cardboard 'slip in' Reel-3d mounts much.  The idea is nice, but the
execution isn't.  The RMM cardboard mounts seem free of 'fuzzies'.  
How
are the reel-3d ones? I know that Albion aluminum mounts would be 
better
than any cardboard, but i need something for the 'less than A+ 
quality'
shots that i still want to keep. 

Without digging out my samples of the RMM cardboard mounts, I have a 
few things to say about the heat seal mounts sold by Reel 3D.  
Wonderful, fantastic, cheap to buy, nice to look at, easy to use, feel 
good in your hand, easy to label. Need I say more?  I just got my 
first package a month or so ago, and just ordered two more.  I mount 
my best ones with albion or Sigma metal mounts in glass with EMDE 
binder frames.  But for all around use of average to below average 
shots too good to toss, the heat seal mounts are the BEST. I live in 
fear that the machine that makes them will break down and I'll be 
stuck. (Same could be said for the Viewmaster machine, though.) When I 
started, I was using the Sigma metal masks (no longer produced due to 
machine failure).  They are accurate mounts, but I'm scavenging the 
old Sigma masks and remounting those old shots in the heat seal 
mounts, because the aluminum jobs bend, don't feel very good in your 
hand, and get jammed in a projector unless they are put in a cardboard 
foldover or binder frame (UGHH!!-hate those cardboard foldover things. 
 So ugly only a mother would love them, regrettably useful sometimes, 
though.)  Nice thing about the aluminum mounts, though, is that they 
don't take up a lot of room.  They are pretty thin.

I know those slip in mounts are awful for regular mounting, and 
expensive to boot, but I discovered a new use for them recently.  I 
use them as temporary mounts when I'm cutting my filmstrips and use 
them as holders. They are re-useable, and are great for viewing when 
you are trying to decide which slides to put in heat seal, which to 
discard, and which ones to mount accurately in metal masks and finish 
with glass for projection/competition.  It's also nice when time is 
limited and you just want to cut your slides and get a quick look, and 
then later, you can go back and mount the slides properly.

What I don't know however, is what if I make a mistake and want to 
take a pair out of heat seal mounts and put them in metal albions.  Am 
I going to have sticky, impossible to remove glue on the edges of my 
slides after I get them out of the heat seal mounts?


Steve Owsley. 



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