ziplocks won't really keep out oxygen, and I doubt ozone either.
> Maybe aluminium coated Mylar bags? :)
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I've been out of the construction business for over ten years now.
The kit was very usefull for emergency hyrdaylic line repairs, LP
cylinder seals on the lift trucks and just a happenstance of emergency
applications.
The ziplock bag is just an excuse for not just throwing the lot of them
away.
I doubt I'll ever use any of them and the ziplock bag will burrow its way
to the bottom of a 5 gallon parts bucket and possibly never surface again
in my lifetime.
I've picked the goodies out over the years and never replaced the popular
sizes so I'm left with the too big, too small, too thick, that I just
never found use for .............. a box of junk.
I can't seem to get past the mental picture of reaching in the bag and
smiling because I save a trip to the hardware store, but that won't
matter because that will also be the day I win the lottery.

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 10:12:57 -0800 Alistair Bell <albell@UVIC.CA> writes:
> on 16/2/03 9:56 am, Larry Alofs wrote:
>
> > The zip lock bag is good.  Rubber parts last longer if you can
> keep
> > oxygen and ozone away from them.
> >
> > Larry A.
>
>
> ziplocks won't really keep out oxygen, and I doubt ozone either.
> Maybe
> aluminium coated Mylar bags? :)
>
> But I doubt that regular (dark) storage in the environment of a
> workshop or
> van will be detrimental (provided your keeping them away from the
> ol' sparky
> electric motor).
>
>
> why not put some silicon grease on them, or maybe the old fashioned
> rubber
> band treatment of glycerol, or talc?
>
> Alistair
>
> --
> '82 Westy -> diesel converted to gas in '94
> albell@uvic.ca
> http://members.shaw.ca/albell
>
>

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