[CAUT] Critter-damaged punchings

[Otto Keyes]

This is good news!  I've got some pianos I've been wanting to nuke for a
long time!

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: piano57 at insightbb.com
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 6:39 am
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Critter-damaged punchings
To: caut at ptg.org

> Greetings all,
> 
> I know you've all been wondering constantly about the 
> microwave/critter subject.  I've read the conservatore's report, 
> and Ed Sutton was correct in his suggestion of using the microwave 
> oven.  Here is a bit of the conclusion: 
> 
> "Microwave heating can be an effective nonchemical method of 
> disinfesting wool textiles.  In this study, 3 minutes of microwave 
> exposure was sufficient to obtain a 100% mortality in the egg, 
> larval and adult stages of the webbing clothes moth in a 2.2 m 
> (nicely folded in the pictures) samples of wool gabardine with 
> minimal effects on the chemical and physical properties of wool.  
> Prolonged heating should be avoided because it causes shrinkage, 
> among other types of deterioration."
> 
> BTW, there was a mention of moisture and its effectiveness of 
> microwaving.  ;-)
> 
> There you have it.  
> 
> 
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> near Peoria, IL
> 
> PS  Many thanks to the staff at Alpha Park District Library and the 
> library at Bradley University, Peoria, IL for providing a copy of 
> the report.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: piano57 at insightbb.com 
> To: caut at ptg.org 
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Critter-damaged punchings
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Hmm, I'm having a little server problem this morning.  The update 
> to this email that you've never received is, I can pick up the 
> article late this afternoon and will find out what Conservators do 
> with woolen textiles and microwaves.
> 
> Barbara Richmond
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Barbara Richmond 
> To: College and University Technicians 
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 7:41 AM
> Subject: Re: CAUT Critter-damaged punchings
> 
> 
> Well, I guess Ed was right.  [Ed, Am I fired?  :-) ]
> 
> I'll ask my librarian/husband to retrieve this article.  I should 
> have searched textiles in microwaves--instead of microwave safety!
> I know folks put wet sponges or cloths in the microwave.  I'm 
> curious to see if a textile can go in dry.
> 
> Subject: JSTOR: Journal of the American Institute for Conservation: 
> Vol. 21, No. 2 (Spring, 1982), pp. 1-34
> 
> 
> 
> http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0197-
>
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> 
> 
> Later,
> 
> Barbara Richmond, RPT
> near Peoria, IL
>