{"id":758,"date":"2013-04-24T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/?p=758"},"modified":"2013-04-25T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T13:56:02","slug":"preservation-week-day-3-bonus-storing-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/2013\/04\/24\/preservation-week-day-3-bonus-storing-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Preservation Week Day 3 bonus: Storing Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the fourth post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week.\u00a0 NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

I\u2019m hoping to do a step-by-step guide to how\u00a0the NMAM\u00a0wraps and hangs model airplanes sometime during the summer of 2013.\u00a0 In the meantime, here\u2019s a look at how some common acid-free supplies were used to store a fragile model helicopter toy.<\/p>\n

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Late 1940s toy helicopter. Source: National Model Aviation Museum, doanted by George Twine, 2009.07.01.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This toy helicopter dates to the late 1940s.\u00a0 The fuselage is a thin, bent piece of aluminum and the rotor blades are a wire frame covered in tissue.\u00a0 The blade support piece is bent forward, so the rotor blades do not sit as they would have in flight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"toyheliblade\"<\/a> \"toyhelifuselage\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The blades are bent and have several tears in the delicate tissue covering.\u00a0 Luckily, the fuselage is relatively unscathed.<\/p>\n

Supplies<\/strong>
\nAcid-free box records carton box lid<\/a>
\nAcid-free tissue paper<\/a>
\nArchival Polyester sheets<\/a>, cut into straps
\nInert double-sided tape<\/a>
\nPolyethylene foam<\/a><\/p>\n

Steps:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"storingheli1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

1. Each rotor blade was individually wrapped in acid-free tissue. The tissue sleeves are held in place by the straps of polyester sheeting closed with tape.<\/p>\n

\"storingheli2\"<\/a>\"storingheli3\"<\/a>
\n2.\u00a0 The fuselage section and the winder were also individually wrapped in acid-free tissue.<\/p>\n

\"storingheli4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Foam was placed on the (flat) acid-free box lid.\u00a0 Together, this acts as the main support for the artifact.<\/p>\n

\"storingheli6\"<\/a>\"storingheli5\"<\/a>
\n4.\u00a0 The entire rotor then was placed on the support.\u00a0 The center and each blade were further supported with foam, so that the weight was equally distributed and there was no undue pressure on any piece.\u00a0
\n5.\u00a0 The rotor blades were held in place by the polyester sheeting straps, which wrapped over the part and the support.\u00a0 The straps were held in place by pieces of the tape.<\/p>\n

\"storingheli7\"<\/a>
\n6.\u00a0 The fuselage and winder were placed on the support.\u00a0 Again, the polyester sheeting straps were used to gently hold each piece in place.<\/p>\n

\"storingheli8\"<\/a>
\n7.\u00a0 The assigned catalog number was written on the support to make it easy to find and identify later.<\/p>\n

If you want more advice on preserving your model airplanes, feel free to ask your questions to the museum\u2019s blog<\/a>, Facebook<\/a> page, or by emailing staff directly at mariav@modelaircraft.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Preservation<\/a>Sponsored by the ALA\u2019s Association\u00a0for Library Collections and Technical Services and partner organizations, Preservation Week will inspire actions to preserve personal, family and community collections of all kinds, as well as library, museum and archive collections. It will raise awareness of the role libraries and other cultural institutions can play in providing ongoing preservation information. More information can be found at: www.ala.org\/preservationweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the fourth post in a week-long series celebrating National Preservation Week.\u00a0 NMAM blog posts in this series will discuss how to preserve your own modeling history.\u00a0 I\u2019m hoping to do a step-by-step guide to how\u00a0the NMAM\u00a0wraps and hangs model airplanes sometime during the summer of 2013.\u00a0 In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,92],"tags":[94,96,50,93],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museum","category-preservation-week","tag-artifact-care","tag-model-helicopters","tag-museum-2","tag-preservation-week-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amablog.modelaircraft.org\/amamuseum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}