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<p>Thank James, Will look into it and watch out for beaks and claws.</p>
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<p><b>Amos Belmaker, </b>Ph.D.</p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, June 5, 2017 9:34:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Amos Belmaker<br>
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<div class="">The material used is low-density polyethylene (standard material for plastic bags). It is relatively stable but will degrade under UV light. Among other features, the polyethylene tubing on the ULINE page is stated to be 1) NOT waterproof, and
2) <u class="">acid free and archival safe</u>. Under normal museum conditions this material should be safe for exposing to specimens. It is smooth but can catch and tear easily on claws, beaks, and wires, so watch out for that. There are several varieties
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<div class="">Im interested in others experience with this as well.</div>
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<div class="">Good luck bagging,</div>
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<div class="">Thank you, James! I will look into the links you sent. Do you know if there is an issue with the type of plastic used, in terms of archiving?</div>
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<div class="">We have recently bagged our birds and mammals after a growing infestation of drugstore beetles. After cleaning each specimen, we sealed them in ULINE poly tubing.</div>
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<div class="">They have been in the sealed bags for almost 2 years now and are doing great. If doing this, I would consider adding dry-packs to the bag. There is a brief discussion of this procedure in Hendry (1999, p. 15, linked). An issue I have found is
with how to seal larger specimens one could always stitch multiple pieces of tubing together with glue, tape, or spot-heating. </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class="">We are in the process of organizing and modernizing our vertebrate collection. As part of that process we want to both protect our bird and mammal skins and be able to stick a bar-code on each specimen. </div>
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class="">We were thinking about putting each skin in a plastic sleeve to protect it while allowing us to stick the bar-code to the sleeve allowing us to scan without touching the specimen. Of course this will not
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class="">I was trying to find some guidelines for the use of such sleeves and couldn't find any. Does anyone have any recommendation/thoughts on this? Is this a good idea? Where can I buy them? Any advice would
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<div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" class="">Many thanks,<br class="">
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