airtight storage how?

[Jim Taylor]

Will Pratt wrote:

...Bioquip also sells folding cardboard storage boxes, which can be made
>airtight (almost) by doing a little extra work on the corners with
>aquarium sealer, and gluing felt strips to the inside of the lids...

I use these, stick a plug of "Revenge" in each, and make them reasonably
airtight with a wrapping of Saran Wrap.

Jim Taylor
-----Original Message-----
From: Will Pratt <prattw at nevada.edu>
To: leps-l at lists.yale.edu <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Date: Monday, October 12, 1998 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: airtight storage how?


>Liz Day wrote:
><snip>
>> Is there a good way to seal the collection so that none of the napthalene
>> fumes come out?  (My interpretation of this is, if you can't smell the
>> mothballs, then no fumes are coming out worth worrying about.)
>>
>> The collection is housed in about 8 or 10 of those little museum trays
>> with the styrofoam in the bottom, the ones that fit inside Cornell
>> drawers, but there are no Cornell drawers.  <snip>
>
>Liz,
>
>Assuming that your trays are 4 3/8" by 5 5/16", one Cornell drawer would
>hold eight of them.  Two would give you room to grow.  My Bioquip
>catalog quotes a price of $37.00 each for the plain version.  If you are
>reasonably handy with tools, you can buy a kit to build 6 of them, with
>hardboard bottoms, for $90.  You have to get the glass locally, which
>would add about $5 each to the cost.  It's possible to put together one
>at a time, and store the rest in a closet.
>
>Bioquip also sells folding cardboard storage boxes, which can be made
>airtight (almost) by doing a little extra work on the corners with
>aquarium sealer, and gluing felt strips to the inside of the lids.  The
>boxes are 9" x 13" and sell for $40 a dozen, shipped flat.  You might
>also look for old silverware cases at thrift store, strip out the guts
>and use those.  And for minimal cost, with some sacrifice of
>convenience, cover the individual trays with saranwrap and pin a
>naphalene cone into each one.
>
>Will
>
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