Steve,

I understand your warm and fuzzy feeling about vacuum sealing, however in
practice you might want to stick with your existing thermal sealer. It is
not required, nor preferable to remove all the air from inside a moisture
barrier bag. In fact the desiccant becomes less effective if there is not
air inside the bag for the moisture to be pulled from the components. I have
also seen many cases where the vacuum level was set so high that trays and
components could get damaged.

Don't thank me, instead you can buy me a beer with the money you saved...I
hate to be desiccated myself.

François Monette
Cogiscan Inc.
Tel : 450-534-2644
Fax : 450-534-0092
E-mail : [log in to unmask]
www.cogiscan.com



Date:    Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:29:48 EDT
From:    [log in to unmask]
Subject: Vacuum sealing equipment...

Hi All!

Our McDry dessicant cabinets have just been over-populated recently due to
having to open vendor-sealed packages looking for certain DATECODE
parts...(hmmm, this subject seems familiar for some odd reason...)

Anyhoo, we've got a regular thermal sealer here, but we have now seen the
need for a vacuum sealer...

A vacuum sealer just gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that air has
been sucked out of the packaging with a dessicant packed in there with the
parts, sealed off from the outside world as we know it, and they're slowly
suffocating, slowly.. slowly..slowly. The moisture being steadily drained
from their lifeless and uncaring souls...HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!

Ahem, 'scuse me. Kinda' got carried away there, didn't I? Didn't mean
to...really...my job isn't getting to me, it really isn't...honest.

I did a search and got a gazillion hits for vacuum sealers, do any of you
have one that you can recommend and like, to help me from having to make too
many decisions?

'preciate it!!!

-Steve Gregory-

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