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Originally Posted by tiger8mush
sorry if I missed it, but what about E121s? Has anyone successfully soaked one without issue?
Thanks!
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Hi
I just bought a group of 27 cards that were glued into a 1922 bankbook (same as notebook paper). 20 E121s and 7 E220s. They all soaked fine. Using some of the previous posts as a guide, here's a step by step rundown of what I did;
I started with paper pages with cards glued, at about 5pm.
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I filled some pans with luke-warm water, and put individual sheets, each having two cards per side into the water.
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The pages floated, every now and then I pushed them down to the bottom. I left them in for about 15 minutes. I then picked up the sheets and it was quite easy to pull the cards, very slowly, off the sheets, except for one sheet, that one I soaked for another 20 minutes. The backs of the cards still had glue residue on them. I gently rubbed that off with a paper towel and put the individual cards back in the pan, after refilling with clean water.
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I left the cards in water for another 15, took them out, put them in between paper towels and topped with books.
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I changed paper towels after an hour, and again around 9pm. The next morning they looked and felt pretty good, but I still changed the paper towels and let sit for another day.
Below are the end results
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Thanks
Bob