Re: Is Water Archival?

[P3D Mark Josephson <icebox@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, P3D Bill Davis wrote:

> MARK JOSEPHSON ASKS:
> 
> >>I just bought hundreds of RBT mounts for that purpose, and I suspect 
> >I will stick with those.  RBT's knock aluminum right out of the water. 
> >Say, Jon, something that just popped in my head...What kind of plastic 
> >are the RBTs? 
> 
> Um, Mark, forgive me for telling you your business, but if you are 
> storing your slides in the water, I think the type of plastic is 
> irrelevant.  Or does the RBT's plastic float better?

Bill, you _totally_ don't understand slide storage.  Obviously, RBT's sink 
right down to the bottom of the fishtank I use (saltwater, of course).  
See, the water is good for insulating the slides against harmful humidity 
changes (always 100% in the tank).  The secret is to use one of those 
hard to find plutonium-based staticmasters (not to be confused with the 
more common polonium-based staticmaster), because after a couple of  
shots with the plutonium brush, the slides repel everything.  The water 
stays a comfortable .01 mm away from the surface of the emulsion.  I 
highly recommend saltwater storage to anyone who can find the rare 
plutonium staticmaster.  A 30 gallon tank can safely store about a 
thousand slides.
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