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From: jerryp@tekig1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Subject: long term *dry* storage for slides?
Message-ID: <1272@tekig1.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 02:07:31 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 26 02:07:31 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Aug-83 16:26:32 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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I live in Oregon -- in the rainy part of the state -- in a basement apartment.
Needless to say, it's damp.  Some of my things have gotten moldy.  I don't
want that to happen to my (thousands of) slides!

Can anyone suggest a good way to keep my slides dry?  I store them in metal
bulk-storage files (about 18" wide x 8" deep) that hold 800 loose slides.

  * Do those "air-drying crystals" from the hardware stores damage/fade film?
  * Anyone seen large, air-tight containers -- that don't cost *too* much --  
    that'd hold 8 or 10 of my slide files?
  * I think Kodak recommends a relative humidity around 30 or 40%.  Any
    experience with long-term storage in air that's dryer than that?

Thanks...

--Jerry Peek
  D.S. 39-285; Tektronix, Inc.; P.O. Box 500; Beaverton, OR 97077
  503/627-3124
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