I did this job for a friend a couple of years ago. My technique was to use clean slightly soapy water on the non-emulsion side to gently wipe the muck off. If the emulsion side is dirty too, you can try the same technique, and if they're were processed by Kodak they will most likely survive. Some of the slides I treated were non-Kodak, and in some cases the emulsion came off: but as the friend said, without my treatment they were gone anyway!
HTH John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sent: Thursday, 7 November 2013 3:23 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Old Dirty Kodachrome Slides In my home repair/decluttering, I've run across a couple of boxes of old Kodachromes I had packed away. They're all I managed to salvage from the binders destroyed when my roof came off during Hurricane Fran in 1996. They look like they were washed in muddy water. Is there any way to clean them without destroying them? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
