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Re: [OM] Terrible Dilemma

Subject: Re: [OM] Terrible Dilemma
From: "Rand E." <rtomcala@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:01:05 -0500
Skip,
  It's in bulk form, but I buy my silica gel at the art/craft store for
about $1/pound.  Use cheap poly salt & pepper shakers with a cotton ball
on top and you have a high capacity renewable moisture removal tool and
you can afford to have an excess of capacity rather than the reverse.
Rand E.

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Skip Williams wrote:
> 
> Get a humidity gauge and a can of silica gel to keep in there with the
> equipment.  That should handle the fungus.  I keep my equipment sealed in
> cases with fresh silica gel all the time they're not out.
> 
> I got my silica gel at http://www.dehumidify.com/
> 
> Skip
> 
> At 2/17/00 09:08 PM  -0600, you wrote:
> >Personally, I'd start using the mint one.  Perhaps an odd position from a
> >guy who has been going so crazy he hasn't even used anything yet, but I'm
> >buying to USE, not just look at (great as it is to look at).
> >
> >I would appreciate (offline perhaps) suggestions from list members for how
> >they display their treasures.  I'm thinking a bookcase, maybe glass doors,
> >but am worried about fungus, etc.
> >
> >Tom
> >
> > > I just bought a black OM-4T from a list member that is in mint (and I
> > > mean mint) condition, giving me a pair of OM-4Ts to work with, a mint
> > > black body and a beat-to-hell-and-back
> > > so-ugly-it-would-break-another-camera-that-tried-to-take-a-picture-of-
> > > it silver body that's been recently CLAd, so both are in reliable
> > > working condition.
> > >
> ><snip>
> >
> >
> >
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