Old manual got wet

From: jim stephens <jwstephens_2000_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sat Sep 6 20:23:01 2003

Most recovery techniques rely on reducing the manuals
moisture to a certain level and maintaining it there
and
the the best way I heard was to take to a facility
that
can freeze dry and vacumn dry in parallel.

The contents of the Los Angeles public library was
nearly destroyed but for using old aerospace
facilities
around the area to put large quantities of books into
old vacumn test chambers with liquid nitrogen cooling,
and some mods to the vacumn systems to tolerate the
extraction of the moisture.

Most computer manuals are printed on paper that shoulc
be recoverable, since it basically is high rag based
paper, w/o any applied coatings.

The sort of papers used by magazines use either
plactic
coatings, or a very fine clay coating with treatment
over paper to get the "slick" look, and those were
nearly impossible to recover. (unless new techniques
were developed since I last read, anyway).

I don't know if you can do this with any resources you
have, or know of, but the vacumn / freeze dry method
is the best I have heard of.

Of course be sure to pack it to guard against mildew
and rot, or you won't have anything worth restoring
either.

Jim
Received on Sat Sep 06 2003 - 20:23:01 BST