[meteorite-list] 99 Luft-bottles - sitting in my cabinet drawer

From: Michael Gilmer <meteoritemike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:12:16 -0400
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Hi Shawn and List,

Thanks everyone for the kind comments. Storing micromounts in glass
vials is probably not the most efficient way to do it, but I grew
tired of gemjars and membrane boxes. No offense to gemjars and
membrane boxes of course! In fact, I plan to purchase some larger
membrane boxes to store/display my polished amber pieces in, with
backlighting. But, I found with gemjars, that the jars took up a lot
of space in my cabinet. I can fit more vials into a drawer than
gemjars.

FWIW, I get my vials from eBay (one of the only things eBay is still
good for). Strangely, I get them from a different seller every time
because I cannot find a single seller who consistently keeps them in
stock. I did have one seller who had them for several months running,
but she eventually quit offering them.

My goal is to fill up the 6 small drawers in my cabinet with vials. I
have 4 drawers remaining, and I can fit about 48-50 vials in each
drawer. So I have room to expand my current collection considerably.
:)

Best regards,

MikeG

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On 4/29/11, Shawn Alan <photophlow at yahoo.com> wrote:
> MikeG and Listers
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> And this is one of the reasons but limited to of why I like to collect
> meteorite. No collection is the same and seeing your micro mount collection
> the the cork vials looks really cool and how you have it presented. Now have
> you found a way yet to present them if you were going to put them in a suit
> case of something of that nature? At any rate great collection with your
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> [meteorite-list] 99 Luft-bottles - sitting in my cabinet drawerMichael
> Gilmer meteoritemike at gmail.com
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> Hi List,
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> I finished converting my micromount storage from 3ml glass vials to
> 5ml glass vials - the latter have a larger storage capacity and have a
> wider neck to accomodate larger fragments. I keep most of my tiny
> frags, crumbs, and dust in these glass vials. As of now, I have 2
> drawers filled with about 48 bottles each - this holds the majority of
> my micromount inventory. On average, each vial will hold about 2-5g
> of material, depending on the size of the fragments.
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> I like these small bottles because they are air-tight, compact, and
> they let me see the contents at a glance. I also like the "old
> school" look of glass with corks.
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> On the right is the NWA drawer, which holds all of my NWA micros. On
> the left is the drawer that holds named finds and falls (or non-NWA
> Saharans)
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> Photo link -
> http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj24/Meteoritethrower/Meteorites/new-micros-vials.jpg
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> In the photo, from the bottom left to upper right -
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> Drawer 1 (non-NWA)
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> Allende
> Al Haggounia
> Ash Creek
> Bassikounou
> Bensour
> Breja
> Camel Donga
> Canyon Diablo spheroids
> Canyon Diablo shale
> Canyon Diablo crater sand
> Carancas
> Chergach
> DaG 477
> Dalgety Downs
> Daule
> Dawn(a)
> Dhofar 362
> Dimmitt
> El Hammami
> Ghubara
> Gold Basin
> Holbrook
> Huckitta
> Imilac (skeletons)
> Juancheng
> Kilabo
> Koltsovo
> La Criolla
> Lahoma
> Lanton
> Lemmon
> Northbranch
> Norton County
> Nuevo Mercurio
> Pallasovka
> Park Forest
> Portales Valley
> SAU 504
> Sulagiri
> Tamdakt
> Tatahouine
> Thuathe
> Travis(a)
> Tulia(b)
> Vaca Muerta
> Weston
> Zag
> Zunhua
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> Drawer 2 (NWA) - (bottom left to upper right)
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> 323
> 515
> 787
> 801
> 869 (peas)
> 869 (frags)
> 960
> 1877
> 2086
> 2778 (frags)
> 2778 (part slices)
> 2975
> 3134
> 3144
> 3152
> 3336
> 4292
> 4473
> 4528
> 4846
> 4688
> 4689
> 5054
> 5055
> 5129
> 5133
> 6026 (frags)
> 6026 (dust)
> 6075
> 6077
> 6080
> 6284
> 6287
> 6289
> 6391
> 6393
> 6387
> 6394
> uNWA (peas)
> Loose olivines
> Loose chondrules
> Loose olivines
> Empty vials x6
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> Best regards,
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> MikeG
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