You could try refrigerating it. In Brad Rodger's ECU
Conservator's Cookbook (go Pirates!) he says "rubber
should be refrigerated or frozen for storage and kept
in fresh water" until it can be treated.
Sarah
Sarah E. Miller
Kentucky Archaeological Survey
1020 A Export Street
Lexington, KY 40506
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> Does anyone have any immediate solutions to stop
> degradation of
> vulcanite/hard rubber artifacts? In the last few
> days, we have removed a
> number of buttons from the ground and they are
> responding negatively to
> their new environment (the lab). They will go to
> the conservator
> eventually, but in the meantime I was wondering if
> there are some steps I
> can take to stop/lessen the degradation.
>
> thanks,
> Lori Lee
>
>
> Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
> Senior Staff Archaeologist
>
>
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