On Thu, December 16, 2010 10:59, Tim Corio wrote: > Hopefully someone has some good advice on this. How can I set my old > photos free? > > I have an old scrap book (photo album) and I want to remove the photos, > clippings, and ribbons. These are the cardboard pages with a sticky > glue that holds the items and a plastic cover sheet. The sheets are > about 20 years old and the glue has yellowed. > > I don't think solvents (even water) are an option because of the mix of > photos, newspaper, and cloth. Perhaps cold or heat will loosen the > glue. My albums like that, of roughly that age, are quite happy to let go of the things they were holding. Have you actually tried with yours? (I'm sure the adhesive isn't actually rubber cement, as one poster suggested; everything I've read on the topic says that would have visibly damaged the photos long before now.) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
