On 19 Feb 2010, Richard York wrote: > And beware of the Wrong sort of foam! > .. for the first 12 - 15 years. After which the foam de-natures
The old-style foam is grim stuff once past its use-by date. I've currently got here a "retired" NPS competition trophy which was packed in it and hasn't seen the light of day for about 15 years. The foam has degenerated into a collection of sticky..... (oh dear I think I'm back to snotomers, sorry folks, that was unintentional) unpleasantnesses which are going to have to be painstakingly cleaned off both the trophy and the box it was "lining" before restoration of the box can commence. Luckily I have a volunteer for this job. Anyway the point of the story is perhaps that I wouldn't bet on any such substance being good for more than 10 years. We don't know what today's versions might do in the future. Good luck Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
