This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- As a taxidermist, I've never used organic flours after the mount was complete. If it's for fur cleaning, I've used finely powdered borax. Sometimes coarse borax is better, too, because too fine a product can get stuck in oily dust and make a bigger mess. The other benefit of borax, of course, is additional bug-proofing without making a mount that can't be handed safely. I suspect diatomaceous earth might work as well as fine borax or flour, though I can see some potential problems on the microscopic scale. I might give it a try next time I need to do a dry cleaning myself.
--Steve From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 5:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] These messages are from the Museumpests List, digest mode. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- From: Abigail K Stevens <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:44:25 +0000 Subject: Potato Flour and Pests Dear all, One of our conservators is talking about using potato flour as part of a cleaning process for taxidermy. Although the flour is blown out of the fur/hair at the end of the process, I am concerned that any residue could potentially provide a food source for pests. I was wondering whether anyone has any experience of using potato flour on taxidermy, and whether or not it has made the taxidermy even more appealing to pests? Many thanks in advance, Abby Abby Stevens | Preventive Conservator | The Manchester Museum & The Whitworth Art Gallery t: 0161 306 1590 |t: 07825 011 011 | [email protected] Monday, Tuesday & Friday at The Manchester Museum Wednesday & Thursday at The Whitworth Art Gallery www.manchester.ac.uk/museum or www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in DIGEST mode. To change to the STANDARD mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode standard pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to [email protected] with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email [email protected] or [email protected]
