Re: Cleaning slides

["Edward Wiseman" <nyebos@xxxxxxxxx>]

"PEC" is what I use..claims to be safe and archival for cleaning all
films....Available at any well-stocked photo store..a 4oz bottle goes for
about $11.00 and lasts a long time..
Eddie wiseman
----- Original Message -----
From: "byard pidgeon" <bluedove@ccountry.net>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: Cleaning slides


> If the slide sheets are vinyl, throw them out...eventually (if not
already)
> they will damage your slides.
> Replace with polypropylene or polyethylene or polyester.
>
> The droplets could be from humidity, combined with exudates from slide
> sheets and possibly mounts as well, which would account for not
evaporating.
>
> Try to find the least toxic film cleaner to use on these...people used
> carbon tet years ago, but it's not good for you at all. Not sure what's
> currently available, but I think Kodak Film Cleaner is still around and
> effective.
>
> on 03/21/2002 04:29 PM, David J. Bookbinder at
david_bookbinder@sprynet.com
> wrote:
>
> > I have several sheets of 35mm Ektachrome slides I recently unearthed
after
> > more than twenty years of storage in plastic sleeves (themselves stored
in a
> > sealed cardboard box, along with a lot of prints and negatives). Almost
all
> > of the slides are covered, on the emulsion side, with dozens of small
> > droplets of liquid. At first I thought this was water, perhaps from
humidity
> > which managed to penetrate the box during a basement flood a couple of
years
> > ago, but as these droplets don't seem to evaporate when the slides are
> > exposed to air I'm wondering if they are some kind of exudate from the
> > sleeves themselves.
>
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