[meteorite-list] Display idea for Riker boxes

From: Impactika at aol.com <Impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:02:09 EDT
Message-ID: <d5e.53af51f0.37a35641_at_aol.com>

Gary and all,
 
If you want to see an excellent way to display Rikers, you only have to go
to your favorite magazine, just a few issues back (which issue exactly,
Anita?).
You'll see there how Anita managed to display a lot of Rikers on one wall.
And she explains exactly how she did it, with all the information,
dimensions, blue prints, directions.
It should be very easy for any one of you guys to replicate it! ;-)
 
Anne M. Black
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In a message dated 7/30/2009 9:17:51 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
fujmon at mac.com writes:
Great idea for a thread topic Dan, and nice display Mike.

For the humid, salt spray laden air here in Hawaii, I resist leaving
my meteorites on display for the reason of oxidation. I have LL
chondrites and some diogenites that are weeping ferrous oxide, and a
Tsarev that is literally self destructing from pristine slab to rusted
shards in two months. I don't even need to start telling you about
irons - thank goodness for Rusty Mason, who restore some of them for
me (Thanks Rusty!).

So most all of my collection are stored in various sized membraneboxes
(some of which have desiccant and VCI foam), stored within Pelican
cases (with padded dividers meant for cameras and lenses), which are
kept in my constantly air-conditioned office at work. I have a
pedestal display cabinet in the lobby, where I display meteorite
samples for the public who come through our institute's base
facility. For my collection of individual stones, I have a nice
wooden box given to me by Nakhladog Rob Wesel. Of course, my
collection is outgrowing that storage solution, so I am looking at a
wooden chest with padded, subdivided drawers.

gary


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