[meteorite-list] Membrane Boxes

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Feb 11 17:21:51 2006
Message-ID: <011301c62f59$01c7bd60$8d7cfea9_at_ns279>

Huh, where is the problem?
Hartman is taking for 100 microboxes 1.3$ each.
Seen the weak $, they cost here in Europe quite the same.
Don't tell me that you collect only 1$-pieces!

Wouldn't you make photos of those persons you love, because the albums to
keep the photos are to expensive?

For large pieces Andi Gren recommends you to take transparent plastic boxes,
to span some cling film (but not the thinnest quality) over the open side
and to fix it with Scotch tape,
ready is your cheap one-sided membrane box.

Marcin, what about your experiments with, now my English leaves me,
that device for kitchen, a vacuum sealer?
There you would have a membrane box, without any box but 100% membrane!
(and you could nail your whole collection on the walls!).

Buckleboo!
Martin

(Sniff the Buckleboo farm has no sign)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Garrison" <cynapse_at_charter.net>
To: "Greg Hupe" <gmhupe_at_tampabay.rr.com>
Cc: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [meteorite-list] Membrane Boxes


On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:15:53 -0500, you wrote:

>I find Ron Hartman's pricing very reasonable. Try to beat that by buying
>from the source in Europe and having them shipped to the US.
>

The prices are reasonable-- if you are displaying pieces worth a sizable
multiple of the price of the membrane box. For instance, a $800 lunar in a
$2
membrane box is no big deal. I tend to collect micromounts, both for
economic
and for space reasons. I thought about putting all of mine into membrane
boxes,
but I just could not justify paying the price per membrane box when you
could
get a gem jar of about the same size for a small fraction of the price. The
gem
jars are about the same size, about the same amount of material, and about
the
same complexity to manufacture, but because only one company is making the
membrane boxes, there is no competition for them, and therefore inflated,
monopoly prices. You can't tell me that stretching that membrane across the
plastic is so much more difficult than sticking a piece of round foam in a
jar
that it costs 3-4 times as much to make? I only go with a membrane box for
the
pieces with great interest on both size. My other micro pieces go into gem
jars. Also, I have one of the boxes like this one, and am really annoyed by
the
mold mark in the middle of it-- exactly where a mold mark should NOT be on a
display case: http://home.earthlink.net/~capricorn89/box23.jpg (irrelevant
side
note-- I worked in a plastics plant running injection molding machines one
summer during school, some of the machines the size of rooms. It gives an
interesting perspecitive on how plastic objects are made).
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