[78-L] Storage units

[David Lennick]

I'll say YIKES since I know the units in question..interesting that this didn't 
happen last winter.

Damp sleeves and records are not a good mix. Hey..I have two dehumidifiers. 
Want one?

dl

On 1/15/2013 7:25 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> While we have discussed storage conditions for records many times on this list, and have come to the conclusion that as long as temperature changes are gradual, records can tolerate temperature ranges from deep freeze to summer heat, I had a jolting experience the other day.  Toronto was enjoying spring like weather last weekend so I took the opportunity to visit my outdoor storage units.  You can imagine my horror when I saw that my storage cabinets were covered with water!  Not from a leaking pipe or any other kind of flooding, but from condensation;  obviously the cold steel cabinets contacting the temporarily warm air caused this.  All the doors were coated with mist and had droplets running down them and the handles looked like cold water pipes on a hot summer day.  I opened one of the cabinets and found the inside to be dry, which was a bit of a relief but records sitting on shelves not in cabinets had their envelopes all rippled as if they
>   were wet and any record I took out of an envelope was also covered with mist.  This is a disturbing situation because Toronto's weather is such that there are always going to be warm spells in mid winter and although I assume this water would be very clean, it can't be good for these records to get wet, especially when, as in this case, the warm spell came to an abrupt end and the next day was below freezing - probably freezing the condensation on the surfaces of the records.
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> This unit contains about 40,000 records so there isn't much I can do about drying them off individually.  The only positive side of this situation, (the glass being too full), is that if the records are destroyed and must be disposed of, I'll save hundreds of dollars in storage costs. :-(
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> db