[78-L] Cylinder Boxes

[klinger at modex.com]

David,

To the best of my knowledge, the Hollinger Metal Edge products are
currently the most readily available containers that meet your
description.

Here is a link to their "Wax Cylinder Box" catalog page:
http://tinyurl.com/7hjw7pt

A better, more affordable box should eventually be available, through
the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).

As Mike Biel mentioned, the Cylinder Subcommittee of the ARSC
Technical Committee has developed a molded-plastic Archival Cylinder
Box (ACB).  This spindle-type box consists of a molded-polycarbonate
Body and a molded-polypropylene Lid.  Soft silicone-foam cushions are
compression-fit at the inside bottom of the Body, and inside the Lid.
The Lid is securely retained on the Body, via one-quarter-turn
bayonet-action features.

Over the past year, ACB molds have been built and refined. 
Production of 15,000 ARSC ACBs for the Library of Congress is
scheduled for the first half of 2012.

Thereafter, the ARSC Board of Directors will consider various options
for marketing and distributing ARSC ACBs to the public.  At the
moment, I can't quote price or availability.

Regards,
Bill Klinger

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---- Original Message ----
From: mbiel at mbiel.com
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Subject: Re: [78-L] Cylinder Boxes
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2011 11:06:32 -0700

>
>The ARSC Cylinder Committee headed by Bill Klinger
><klinger at MODEX.COM>
>has been designing the perfect cylinder box.  Check with Bill to see
>if
>it is being manufactured yet  or what he would suggest in the
>meantime. 
>Metal Edge makes a box, and there used to be a box that had been
>designed by the Library of Congress but I do not remember who was
>manufacturing it.
>
>Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: [78-L] Cylinder Boxes
>From: marimbamoods at comcast.net
>Date: Sun, December 25, 2011 7:45 am
>To: List Mail 78-L <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
>does anyone know where to find archival quality cylinder boxes for
>brown
>wax cylinder storage? 
>
>
>i am referring to the type of box with an air space around the
>perimeter
>of the wax surface to allow for air circulation, similar to the early
>Edison boxes. i saw these for sale years ago but can not locate
>anything
>like this currently. 
>
>
>thanks, david harvey 
>
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