According to Gunner :

Unfortunately..the manuals and data cards (all neatly in their proper
racks..are stuck together..so I may have to try to steam them apart.

The technique used by serious libraries to fix wet antique books
is to:

1) Freeze them in liquid nitrogen or dry ice (whichever you can
get, which will do a proper quick freeze, so the ice crystals
will separate the pages.

2) While keeping it cold, pull a good vacuum on it, so the ice
will sublime (go from solid to gas without becoming liquid
again.

To this, you would have to add a preliminary soaking, so there
would be water between the pages to form the ice.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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