P3D Spicer mounts and Elmers glue

["Kenneth Luker" <kluker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Georgoff asked me to explain how I use white   
glue on Spicer mounts without making a mess.  Here's 
how:

I place the chips in the Spicer mounts using a lightbox 
and large viewing lenses, and tape them down with a 
Wesstab at the top and bottom of each chip. Then I set 
the mount to one side, nesting each open mount into the 
growing pile of unsealed mounts. When I've finished with 
the roll, I get my little plastic bottle of white glue and open 
the twist top just enough to allow the glue to ooze out in a 
small stream when I'm squeezing the bottle.   

I place the mount face down on the table with the square- 
cornered cutout portion facing me, and the smaller, 
rounded-corner portion with chips affixed extending 
upward from the table and away from me.  Then I put the 
tip of the glue bottle at the lower left corner of the mount 
and extrude a small strip of glue as I move the tip along 
the left border toward the fold.  The width of the strip is 
perhaps 1/32 inch wide--small enough so that when I 
close the mount, the glue will spread but not far enough to 
flow to the chip or beyond the edge.  

In one motion I drag the tip of the glue bottle up the left 
side and then along the folded side, keeping the glue 
stream in the center of the cardboard border.  Next I lift 
the glue tip and move it back to the lower left corner and 
repeat the gluing along the near edge and up the right 
side.  Finally, I put the tip about 1/4 inch to the right of the 
the lower right corner of the left-hand cutout, and make an 
"N" shaped strip of glue going up the right side of the left 
hole, down and across to a spot near the left side of the 
right hole, and thence upward toward the fold.  

Now I set the glue bottle down (on its side, so the glue 
won't empty down from the tip into the bottle again) and 
close the mount.  I quickly press along the edges and in 
the center to spread the glue, and then put the glued 
mount on the growing stack of glued mounts.  I keep a 
weight (usually my RedButton viewer ?!) on top of the 
stack of glued mounts to keep pressure on the glue as I 
work with the next mounts. By the time I finish gluing the 
last mount, the stack is mostly dry.  I give the stack one 
last press to stick any spots still loose, and then view my 
work in the viewer.   

Dangers:  Too much glue or too little.  Having the 
weighted stack topple sending my RedButton to the floor.  
 
This process seems at least as fast as using tape, and 
gives a good stiff mount with nothing to snag, and 
unslippable chips.  The gluing motions all together take 
about three seconds per slide.

Ken Luker  

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Kenneth Luker
Marriott Library Administration
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