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Topic: IB going vinegar... Best to store wound tight or loose?
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Leo Enticknap
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 01-30-2005 05:05 AM
quote: Mark J. Marshall I have the bags and the tape actually. I was using them, but the odor was pretty strong when I took the film out of the bag, so I decided to let it air out for a while.
If the element(s) have passed the autocatalytic point or are on the verge of doing so (have you tested them with a/d strips?), plus the atmosphere inside the bag was pretty humid when it was sealed, I can believe that.
quote: Chris Trainor Sieves in a vented can are useless. They do nothing for the film. They suck the moisture out of the ambient air, if you put them in open air (vented can) they'll just suck from the air in the room that the can is stored in.
Inside a fridge is not in the open air. If it isn't opened too often, it's probably a 99% airtight environment. I'm not sure how efficient the door seals or the gaskets where the coolant pipes enter and exit the main storage compartment are. In fact, assuming the fridge is reasonably full, they might (I say might because I've never tried this myself) do a reasonably good job in creating a low temperature, low humidity environmnent in which to store small quantities of film in a situation where either the justification and/or the money isn't there for building a full-scale environmentally controlled vault.
Because of the condensing action of the coolant generating more moisture all the time, you'd need to replace the sieves quite regularly, I'd guess.
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