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| Does anyone here use humidity packs? If so; - do they work/help? - are they worth it? - which ones do you use? - where do you put them? right in the longbox? - how often do they need to be replaced? I'm considering these: clickable text clickable text clickable text Just considering my humidity levels where I store my books. Thanks! |
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I've done a LOT of research on this subject. I did a writeup in my group on facebook about it too: SILICA GEL PACKS I do not recommend using silica gel packs inside your boxes of comics, especially for long term storage. The silica packs will draw out all the moisture, even the good healthy moisture inside your comics, and suck it all inside the silica pack. Within a month or 2, you now have a wet water bag inside your box of comics, creating its own humidity tank environment which will cause rippled and wavy books. Even graded ones. I speak from experience and trials. I have even gone further than that and noticed the behavior warp card backers for action figures as well in my testing. A climate controlled storage or climate controlled house is your best environment for comics. Attic or garage is not recommended either. As a test, I once (for 3 weeks) left a short box of comics outside as a control here in Seattle, and another short box of comics inside a sealed Rubbermaid storage tub with no silica or moisture inside. The box outside the tub was wavy pages. The box inside the Rubbermaid storage tub was completely fine, shockingly. The key issue here to look at is "an extreme sudden change in environment". So, if you suddenly went from 40% humidity to 80% humidity, it will "shock" the comics. Same goes for 40% to 25% suddenly. Any change that is too soon or fast can warp pages. This method of climate control is not recommended as most people do not regularly return to replace their silica packs, as they expire or become ineffective depending on the environment and its natural humidity. You may have to replace the silica once a month, or once every 3 months. It can vary by your regional location and storage location. Once the silica is "expired" it can leave undesirable results and impact your books or toys. There are products available that can reuse silica crystals by heating up the silica again in an oven at a temperature of 160F to dry out the silica and the process starts over again. But again, I do not recommend it as we are human in nature and can often become forgetful or lazy to remember to reuse and recycle the silica packs when required. A typical short box of comics would require less than a 1/2 cup of silica crystals. Package instructions: "Bake in oven at 150-200F for 30 min - 1.5 hours. Please don't use microwave". https://amzn.to/2K11bwy |
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| I do not use any desiccant. I do, however depend on the home HVAC to control the humidity. Living in South Carolina, humidity control is a must during the summer, or misery will quickly follow. | ||
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| @kaptainmyke Ok, very helpful!! No silica packs and monitor your own home climate for best results. Thanks Kap!! | ||
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| I keep my comics in the BCW bins, in a indoor closet (Fairly controlled climate) so far No Moisture issues. Here on the gulf coast we have ~60% humidity most of the time. A good day around 40%; more often than I’d like it will be upwards To 80%-90% | ||
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| I use a couple of Eva-Dry Dehumidifiers which keeps the humidity in my comic room between 50-60%. They are just sitting on top of the boxes and not directly in contact with my comics. Every week I connect them to dry them up. | ||
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| Living in a first world country, most of us don't need to really do anything complicated on comic storage except keeping them in the dark (like in boxes)in our house and having normal, first world type climate control system. If you heat your house in the winter and cool it in the summer, you are probably staying in the range that paper is OK with. If you are hot and sweaty, your books are not happy either. Silica packs as the Kaptain explained are just to random and variable. You don't really know what humidity of the box of books is at. You don't know when the silca has absorbed too much, too little or is full and can't absorb more. |
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| My parents had about 4 of my short boxes in an attic in their house in Florida for about 10 years. I got several of the books graded, including a Sandman 1, and got 9.8s. Sounds like BS, but it’s true. Yaaay. | ||
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