[meteorite-list] Membrane Boxes
From: Greg Hupe <gmhupe_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Feb 11 17:30:11 2006 Message-ID: <053b01c62f5a$b51ee220$ae105c18_at_Gregor> Well said, my friend. Greg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de> To: <cynapse_at_charter.net>; <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 5:17 PM Subject: Re: Re: [meteorite-list] Membrane Boxes > 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). > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sat 11 Feb 2006 05:30:05 PM PST |
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