At 12:50 AM 8/24/99 +0000, you wrote:
>
>Garth, You lucky thing - the humidity, not the sad happening
>(commiserations). The
>humidity in my house rarely gets below 83%
Hmmm. You either live in Ireland or a Turkish Bath. And as a bonus -- you
never have to go outside to pick mushrooms! ;-)
>Alex, have you heard of Pelican cases? These are very tough plastic cases
>that have
>an O-ring sealed lid and which are air and water tight. They have a purge
>vave so
>you can equalize the pressure if the differential gets too great for you to
>open
>them - you get the idea. A search of the Web should bring up some stuff on
>them.
They're great cases, but they're pricey. I've tried to talk my wife into
letting me buy one for years now to protect the equipment -- mebbe when she
sees the repair bill for fungus she'll understand why I think thousands of
dollars worth of glass is worth a few hundred dollars worth of hermetic storage.
Garth
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