According to Gunner :

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.

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SAVED!! Ive got a vaccum pump somewhere around here..no
container..but Ill think of something

Pick up a bell jar and plate from an eBay auction?

Let me know how it works for you. I've been told that it even
will separate a deck of soaked playing cards, but I've never tried it
yet. I've got a vacuum jar which I could use for it, if I got something
worth chasing down some liquid nitrogen for -- now that I don't work
where it is used daily. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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