Ugh! Bad stickum!

[P3D Paul S. Boyer <boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Shelley writes:
"At this point, I am using scotch tape... Maybe not the best, but it 
works for me, and allows me to change my mind later if needed."

Scotch tape will bleed through photographs in time.  Even the Magic

Mending tape (which is better!) is not archival.
I have some old documents which, in my ignorant youth, I

enthusiastically taped together with Scotch tape.  It was a disaster!
 
 I wrote 3-M, and they reported that there is no practical way to

remove the brown stain which results from their stickum.

Rubber cement is also especially bad because of bleed-through.

Just wall-paper paste (which is essentially flour-and-water, with
poisons to discourage the bugs) would be preferable, I would think.
Or you could try photographic mounting tissue.

Some archival supply joints have tape like Scotch tape, but with
water-soluble stickum.  It's used in libraries for repairing books.
It is much more expensive than Scotch tape, but I am sure that your
pictures are worth it.
--Paul S. Boyer   <boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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