Instead of twisted paper, the local "buy it all here" type of store has cotton balls for next to nothing. If one or two cotton balls in a box isn't enough, they sell them in the large bag full.
For a very inexpensive display box, the same notable store types sell plastic sectioned boxes with see through lids for a few bucks. Get one and load it with cotton balls and put the meteorites in the little nests of cotton balls. My favorite is in the 2 inch by two inch square section size, boxes have around 24 or more sectioned areas, there's display for two dozen smaller meteorites...
Not as classy, but very affordable for the beginning collector.......or the new seller of meteorites who needs a less expensive display case as one tests the stormy waters of meteorite sales. Specimen can be placed in a reiker mount box when it is sold at point of sale, or let the buyer get a reiker mount box from you too!
Lots of crabby folks sitting round for the last three day weekend of the summer, I'd say.
Gunshow Dave Freeman
greg Edwards wrote:
I want to get back and let you know what I came up with to store my micromounts. I am now using a platic project box similar to http://www.garrettwade.com/jump.jsp?lGen=detail&itemID=105310&itemType=PRODUCT&iMainCat=0&iSubCat=0&iProductID=105310. You could also use http://www.akro-mils.com/home_office/subcategory_display.asp?id=61 or similar.
You need to keep these out of the sun (I was using one to store ready-use starmaps, red light, etc in a widow ledge. After a few years it got knocked to the ground and shattered into rather small pieces...otherwise they are tough enough.
I use some twisted paper to fill in the unused area so the micromounts don't slide around too much. Anyone have a better idea for storage?
I am pretty happy with the results.
Thank you
Greg Edwards
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:17:53 -0700, greg Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Which gets us back to my original question. In your terms, does anyone know where to obtain a good "palet" that could hold 50 or so micromount boxes at one time? It would be nice if these could stack into a standard size container (picture a picnic basket with palets of micromounted meteorites being carried by Dorothy on a trip across Oz)?
Thank you
Greg Edwards
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:41:19 +0200, Meteoryt.net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) Putting the stone /iron into a ziplock plastic bag with a piece of VCI paper, does the paper then emit some kind of protection onto the
stone/iron
?
2)Would there be any idea to first treating the specimen with VCI and then store it in a membranebox ?
I also want to say that........ Meteorites would rust also becouse they are not polished and not good heated before cuting or polishing and if they not rust now, they can rust in near future becouse they are not cleaned/protected sufficient.
There is also problem how we want show ours collection. Storing in zip-bags is ugly, make mess and its not easy to show our specimens. Membrane boxes are fine, becouse You can see specimen from both sides, but they are more expensive and not have palets to hold more boxes in one place. Its verry difficult to have order if You have 50 small boxes stored somewhere. F.e. small, 1" membrane boxes fit to palets from my small and medium acrylic boxes, becouse size it near the same.
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