Recovery after flood

I'd appreciate a response from M.Aldrich and anyone else who's into disaster
recovery:

Someone I know had their (paper) files submerged in water. Now all the papers
(most of them xerocopies, some photographs) are stuck together. They are, of
course, confidential to some degree. Can someone refer us to someone in
the Boston area who could assist in recovering the files?

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:

> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 03:15:40 EST
> From: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: Recovery after flood
> 
> I'd appreciate a response from M.Aldrich and anyone else who's into disaster
> recovery:
> 
> Someone I know had their (paper) files submerged in water. Now all the papers
> (most of them xerocopies, some photographs) are stuck together. They are, of
> course, confidential to some degree. Can someone refer us to someone in
> the Boston area who could assist in recovering the files?

Try the restoration departments of the suburb Boston Museums.
Expect to pay out the nose and rectum.

> 
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> Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
> Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
> 

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Hi Dimitri,
     depends on whether the binder in the glue is sticking or just
plain simply mud, if the documents are NOT fragile antiquities and
instead are modern photocopy paper and modern photographic papers
experiment in a very small area of the doc with freon tape cleaner
(it evaporates very rapidly) to try and free the areas of stickage
try other solvents also(this is how I cleaned a stack of crypto proceedings
that had been cat peed and stuck together), hope its going better for you..

   cheers
   kelly

Thanks Kelly!! I'll tell them to try the freon tape cleaner. (I don't have
the papers myself.) From what I've seen, it looked like the copier's toner
got dissolved in the water and is acting as a glue. The files were submerged
for a while (stupid) and when they pulled them out, they let them dry w/o
separating the pages (even more stupid). I hope there will still be some
images on the pages if we get them unstuck :-) :-) :-)

This reminds me of how we once recovered a piece of electrical equipment
from seawater, and we were told to basically keep in in a bucket of water
until it could be cleaned properly. Changing the surroundings even for
something that seems more "natural" is always additional stress on the
damaged equipment and loses more information.

Thanks again for the advice - I appreciate it because it would be quite a
pity if all of it were lost.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps

On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Black Unicorn wrote:

> > Someone I know had their (paper) files submerged in water. Now all the papers
> > (most of them xerocopies, some photographs) are stuck together. They are, of
> > course, confidential to some degree. Can someone refer us to someone in
> > the Boston area who could assist in recovering the files?
> 
> Try the restoration departments of the suburb Boston Museums.
                                         ^^^^^^ suPurb
> Expect to pay out the nose and rectum.
> 
> > 
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> > 
> > Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
> > Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
> > 
> 
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