On Mar 15, 11:56 pm, "Dr Phred" wrote:
I have a huge collection of 35 mm slides that were stored in vinyl
holders. They are kind of stuck in there. It seems the vinyl oozed
something onto the slides, and if you just yank the slide out, it
leaves a "water ring". I'm leaving the slides in there until I can
figure out how to get them out without damaging them. Any suggestions?


This is why archivists warn against vinyl slide holders, polyethelene
holders are much better, but they tend not to grip the slides as well.
Bad news is that the images may be permanently damaged. Get some new
slide mounts, take the film out of the mount and soak it, dip in
Photoflo and hang to dry, remount, that is all you can do. May work,
may not.

Tom