P3D Answer to: Cardboard Mounts Nevermore!

[Jon Golden / 3D Concepts <3dman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>Fred Sole wrote:
 >>  I have finally gotten the hang of mounting stereo so I decided to
 >> check just how good or bad the Kodalux stuff I had done some time back
 >> was. Out of 20 slides, they managed to get one right. But even this one
 >> had vertical alignment error. So I decided to scrap the entire lot of
 >> stuff and re-mount them all. With about 100+ slides to do it took a
 >> couple of evenings. The worst part of the cardboard mounts is the dust
 >> they make when they are ripped apart. It gets all over everything and
 >> is almost impossible to clean off correctly. I suppose if I had waited
 >> until summer and higher humidity I might have had an easier time. At
 >> any rate, no more cardboard mounts!
   >> Now there is the problem with the 10000 I have of 2d mounts.....
 >>-Fred Sole

Fred.....I have been culling through my old images, and removing them from
old heat seal and tape as best I can, and one thing to note is that the
dust is not only going to become a problem ON your images...but may work
its way INTO your images.
Take any old wonderful Kodachrome 50's batch of stereos, mounted in
cardboard...and you will inevitable find imbedded derbis in the images, no
matter how well they were stored.

To eliminate dust and by products of carboard, heat seal glue, tape
adhesives (Scotch tape...a big no. no), try RBT REUSEABLE precision mounts
or perhaps the EMDE or Albion masks/ and glass.   But there is no getting
around the problems with cardboard.

Commercial mounting, or doing your own mounting in heat seal
cardboard...you save money now...but pay dearly later as I have been
finding out looking at my earliest images mounted as such.

Jon G