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PaulSF

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Today a couple came in with three national parks maps that they had Aaron Bros drymount for them. After taking the order and all, I asked why they hadn't had AB do the framing, too -- the wife shot me a look that was priceless!

But anyway, here's the real reason for bringing this up. One of the maps, the largest, was very poorly drymounting. There is extensive bubbling across the entire middle of the map. The backside of the foamboard doesn't have the smooth glossy feel of ordinary foamboard; it feels more like acid free. But I have no way of knowing if AB used Artcare Restore, or just a drymount tissue on acid-free foamboard. They didn't want to deal with the hassle of taking it back to AB to have it fixed, if that's even possible, but they aren't asking me to fix it, either.

Is there anything quick, easy and SAFE that I can try, or should we all just wait for about 10 years for the rest of the mounting to fail, and remount it then?
 
Have you tried putting it back in the drymount for a bit? And then cooling under weight? If it was Restore, the adhesive can be re-activated...that's what makes it reversable, you remove it while it's still hot. But in your case, just don't remove it, weight it to restick it.

Edit: Oops, Jerry beat me to it.
 
I may do that. I have to drymount a couple of things in the next day or two anyway, so the press will already be hot. Thanks!
 
As others have said, chances are that it will be okay if you put it directly under the heat. If the bubble is large, the big risk is that the poster paper will fold over itself and leave a crease.

I might suggest that before you plunk it under heat, you place the piece in a cold press and gently let the platen sit on the surface for a few minutes. Don’t clamp it tight, just let the weight of the platen slowly squeeze the air out.

The alternative is to carefully poke a tiny pin hole over the bubble to aide in the escaping air, but that has its own potential problems.
 
Jana, I agree with you, they should get their money back, but new maps isn't really an option for this reason -- they have adhered little blue, red, and green dots on every locale they have visited in these parks.
 
Just a thought......about those dots.

Maybe putting it back in the press is something you ought not.



Every time it seems like we try to be nice and fix someone else's mess it comes back to bite us! If customer says they can live with it, so be it. You don't want to be the one who makes a bad situation worse, or you'll own the whole problem.
 
j Paul, I don't think I'll be attempting anything with these maps. Like you pointed out, they are OK with it, and all they really want on them are frames. Not even glass or mats, so they can keep sticking dots on the maps. Mainly I was curious as to possible fixes in case someone did ask me to to try in the future.

Good advice.
 
PaulSF said:
Jana, I agree with you, they should get their money back, but new maps isn't really an option for this reason -- they have adhered little blue, red, and green dots on every locale they have visited in these parks.
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Oh for cryin' out loud, if it were that important, and the bumps bothered them enough, they could get new maps and new dots. But sounds like it isn't and the bumps don't so everyone' s cool with it.
Carry on!
 
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