Quote:I just soaked 200, including stuck downs from
an album and Romania
Took nearly 40 minutes.
After enough years, I've figured out some ideal batch sizes for soaking my stamps. Two sinks full of water, one for soaking and one for washing. One large kitchen hand towel gives room for drying 16g of off paper or 40g of trimmed on paper stamps. That fills up 5 pages of a 10 page A4 drying book. I let them soak for 30 minutes before starting work on cleaning them free of remaining gum and paper. As soon as I finish pulling the last stamp out of the sink, they go from the towel to the drying book. The washing process will average about 75 minutes per batch. The first to be pulled from the sink are already a bit too dry by then here in Calgary's low humidity, starting to curl depending on the paper type, but the wet ones at the end help add some moisture to the drying books and at the end of their drying time, they're all nice and flat. I have a dozen drying books so it can take a few weeks before they finally get cycled through the process of drying.
And Rodney, if you think I have a lot of catalogues, you should see my hoard of kiloware ... yeesh. At least I've calmed down on buying more this past year. In every day and in every way, I'm getting better and better .... ha ha
Ryan (Hoarderbus1)
Posted 02/25/2011 12:04 am
