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Re: where do you keep your slides?

  • From: P3D Jim Crowell <crowell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: where do you keep your slides?
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 10:59:27 -0800
At 6:18 PM 6/12/96, P3D Gregg Lobdell 234-0884 wrote:

>Noooooooooooo!  Not in any old plastic!
>
>
>Be very very careful with plastic and slides.  Old style plastic slide
>sheets contained poly-vinyl-chlorides (PVC) which over time would
>transfer from the slide sheets to the slides themselves causing spots
>and encouraging biologicals to grow.
>
>Most consumer grade plastics, including your K-mart imitation brand
>boxes, are practically guaranteed to contain PVCs.  Long term storage
>in non-archival plastics can be like dipping your slides in
>hydrocarbon soup.
>

Good to know!  How does the transfer happen?

-Jim C.


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