Museum move - getting closer...
Everyone, Here's an update on the status of moving our museum. - We signed the new lease a couple of weeks ago. We will pay a (symbolic) $1/year for five years, and then we have five one-year renewals at the same price. - InfoAge received an estimate for turning one of the new room's single doors into a double door. A second estimate is forthcoming. Having a double door will allow us to more easily bring in larger stuff including the pallet-ized UNIVAC. - Fred and I are meeting soon to sort out the keys. - IA leadership includes someone who is an architecture and art professor. We've been asked to show him our layout plan for feedback and hopefully will do so this weekend. - We purchased a small amount of a new kind of shelving. We're going to assemble a single unit this weekend (will only take 15 minutes). If it works as expected, then we'll make the large purchase based on our recent fundraiser. - Depending on how busy we all are at the workshop this weekend, I may ask for two or three helpers to start taking apart our old museum. For example we can start by boxing up all the books and putting them into the warehouse. (We recently purchased a bunch of file boxes.) - We are delaying the addition of more electrical circuits into the new room until we see the final costs of the door, furniture, etc.
Evan, Speaking of books . . . You may remember that I suggested use of a desiccant to keep your existing collection of ephemera dry. I found that Dollar Tree, of all places, sells cans of desiccant, I'd say they are "about" quart sized. I just checked ebay -- holy crap, here's a quart of desiccant for $19! http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Quart-Jug-Replacement-Desiccant-Blue-Indicating-Si... But they're cheap and available, at least at the Dollar Tree in Howell. (Most Dollar Tree is universal but sometimes they'll be a special that doesn't stick around long.) Bill Dudley On 01/27/2016 04:15 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Everyone,
Here's an update on the status of moving our museum.
- We signed the new lease a couple of weeks ago. We will pay a (symbolic) $1/year for five years, and then we have five one-year renewals at the same price.
- InfoAge received an estimate for turning one of the new room's single doors into a double door. A second estimate is forthcoming. Having a double door will allow us to more easily bring in larger stuff including the pallet-ized UNIVAC.
- Fred and I are meeting soon to sort out the keys.
- IA leadership includes someone who is an architecture and art professor. We've been asked to show him our layout plan for feedback and hopefully will do so this weekend.
- We purchased a small amount of a new kind of shelving. We're going to assemble a single unit this weekend (will only take 15 minutes). If it works as expected, then we'll make the large purchase based on our recent fundraiser.
- Depending on how busy we all are at the workshop this weekend, I may ask for two or three helpers to start taking apart our old museum. For example we can start by boxing up all the books and putting them into the warehouse. (We recently purchased a bunch of file boxes.)
- We are delaying the addition of more electrical circuits into the new room until we see the final costs of the door, furniture, etc.
It needs to be open to the atmosphere so it can absorb the humidity. When I visited the warehouse, I suggested tenting the shelving and putting open containers of desiccant under each tent. You could use cheapo super thin plastic drop cloth material for the tenting. Bill This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:10 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
You may remember that I suggested use of a desiccant to keep your existing collection of ephemera dry.
What's the best way to handle that? Just put a little baggy of it in each box?
When I visited the warehouse, I suggested tenting the shelving and putting open containers of desiccant under each tent. You could use cheapo super thin plastic drop cloth material for the tenting.
Ah -- the pallet covers that we bought before the roof repair would work for this. They came in a giant tear-off roll from Grainer and each cover fit over two shelving units.
as long as they can reach the floor and aren't porous they should work. dud This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
When I visited the warehouse, I suggested tenting the shelving and putting open containers of desiccant under each tent. You could use cheapo super thin plastic drop cloth material for the tenting.
Ah -- the pallet covers that we bought before the roof repair would work for this. They came in a giant tear-off roll from Grainer and each cover fit over two shelving units.
On Jan 27, 2016 9:26 PM, "William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic" < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
as long as they can reach the floor and aren't porous they should work.
dud
This email is free of malware because I run Linux.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
When I visited the warehouse, I suggested tenting the shelving and putting open containers of desiccant under each tent. You could use
cheapo
super thin plastic drop cloth material for the tenting.
Ah -- the pallet covers that we bought before the roof repair would work for this. They came in a giant tear-off roll from Grainer and each cover fit over two shelving units.
There are special lit bags for collectible mags and such made for long term storage. I use them. Don't decay, etc
You can order stuff from Dollar Tree online in bulk. That is how I ordered the table covers for VCF East. On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
There are special lit bags for collectible mags and such made for long term storage. I use them. Don't decay, etc
At some point we'll have to re-sort our historic magazines (been a long time). Perhaps we could order those things in bulk.
https://www.dollartree.com/household/cleaning/all-purpose-cleaning/The-Home-... Says charcoal, not your standard desiccant, so not sure how well it works. Bill This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:23 PM, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
You can order stuff from Dollar Tree online in bulk. That is how I ordered the table covers for VCF East.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:47 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
There are special lit bags for collectible mags and such made for long term storage. I use them. Don't decay, etc
At some point we'll have to re-sort our historic magazines (been a long time). Perhaps we could order those things in bulk.
- Depending on how busy we all are at the workshop this weekend, I may ask for two or three helpers to start taking apart our old museum. For example we can start by boxing up all the books and putting them into the warehouse. (We recently purchased a bunch of file boxes.)
I'm available to help with the move whenever you need me. I had not planned on attending the workshop but would gladly come up Saturday or Sunday for a few hours and help pack stuff up/move/ to the warehouse/whatever. Especially if it will eliminate someone having to leave the workshop. Let me know what you need, I'm at your disposal. (As are my vans :-) Tony
I'm available to help with the move whenever you need me. I had not planned on attending the workshop but would gladly come up Saturday or Sunday for a few hours and help pack stuff up/move/ to the warehouse/whatever. Especially if it will eliminate someone having to leave the workshop. Let me know what you need, I'm at your disposal. (As are my vans :-)
Excellent. We can probably use your help Saturday afternoon. Would be a lot easier to neatly stack all the file boxes in the back of your cargo van than to make several trips with the boxes awkwardly jammed in back seats and trunks.
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William Dudley -
William F. Dudley Jr.