Roadsmith
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posted on September 20, 2003 05:30:23 PM new
We have a grundle of old photos all curled some or a lot. Short of putting them face down with a heavy object on them, is there some secret or trick you know?
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fenix03
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posted on September 20, 2003 05:47:02 PM new
Thats the best method I know but be careful if they are too curled because the emulsion can break away from the paper if you "stretch" it too much when trying to flatten out the photo.
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clivebarkerfan
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posted on September 20, 2003 05:55:13 PM new
Contact a museum in your area. they will have an archivist that can help you.
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dacreson
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posted on September 20, 2003 05:59:22 PM new
Dampen the back lightly with a spay bottle and press until dry. Try it on junk photos first as no telling what they have been exposed to so some react badly.
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 20, 2003 07:27:21 PM new
There was a fairly recent thread about this subject. You can search for it here.
http://tinyurl.com/lx11
Lower left corner of the page is the search engine. Make sure that you check the also search msg ctr. box first.
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Roadsmith
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posted on September 20, 2003 08:26:55 PM new
AuctionAce--Thanks (and thanks to the rest of you, too!) I tried searching but all I ever got was my own thread here. Tried "uncurl photographs", "uncurl pictures," "photographs," nada. Probably doing something majorly wrong.
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rampaged
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posted on September 20, 2003 08:49:25 PM new
Soak the photos in water dry between paper with weight on them. You may have to change the paper a few times and it may take a few days but they will be like new.
I used to have my own photo lab and we used a photo drier but the above process will work fine. Water won't hurt the photos as one of the last processes for finishing photos is to wash the chemicals out with clear water.
This also works if photos are stuck together. Soak them apart and dry as mentioned above.
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 20, 2003 09:01:25 PM new
Here's the July thread, odd that it was Roadsmith asking almost the same question?
http://www.vendio.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&id=518722&thread=518639
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kiara
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posted on September 20, 2003 09:14:24 PM new
We have a grundle of old photos all curled some or a lot.
What is a grundle?
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Roadsmith
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posted on September 20, 2003 11:22:12 PM new
Hey, Ace--Yep, I'd forgotten I'd asked about rolled-up paper. I even printed it off to save! But these photos, seems to me, would be a different matter--would need to be treated differently.
We have an awful lot of rolled-up stuff in the stored family boxes and boxes that we're plowing through.
Kiara: We lived in Utah for 21 years, and "grundle" was used in our city to mean "a whole big bunch." Hope there isn't some esoteric, profane, or right-wing meaning to that word!
Since we moved to California two years ago, I haven't used the word until today! How quickly we forget.
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kiara
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posted on September 20, 2003 11:32:34 PM new
Yikes, Roadsmith!
I just googled it and found it in a dictionary and I'm almost sorry I asked. 
It must be a regional thing because I have never heard the word. Or else the meaning changed over the years.....
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Roadsmith
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posted on September 20, 2003 11:40:44 PM new
Oh God, Kiara! Have I started One of Those Threads?!!!!!? (I'm hyperventilating.) Please, Lord, stop this thread NOW. I've had a long enough day and need to relax now. . . .
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[ edited by Roadsmith on Sep 20, 2003 11:45 PM ]
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kiara
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posted on September 20, 2003 11:45:13 PM new
Roadsmith, maybe no one will click on it.
I have learned a lot at Vendio, I even learned how frogs had sex. So why not this also? 
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Roadsmith
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posted on September 20, 2003 11:47:45 PM new
Ohhhhhhh, Kiara, I'm dyin' out here in So. Calif. Dyin'. Proper person that I am. Who would've guessed there was even a WORD for that?!
Fat chance it won't be the talk of the town on Vendio EO. Jeez. If I could just delete a whole thread. . . .
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kiara
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posted on September 20, 2003 11:50:12 PM new
ROFL !!!!!!!!!
BTW, I just have to ask. Are you going to use that word anymore?
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ohmslucy
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posted on September 20, 2003 11:56:59 PM new
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[ edited by ohmslucy on Sep 20, 2003 11:59 PM ]
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Roadsmith
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posted on September 21, 2003 12:01:44 AM new
Kiara: NOPE!
I'm asking the moderator to lock this thread.
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neglus
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posted on September 21, 2003 03:31:07 AM new
LOL - I don't know how to uncurl photos but my lips sure curled into a big old smile when i read this thread AND the "grundle" definition!! IT"S TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING FOR THIS!! HA HA HA HA..coffee not ready yet!
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Twelvepole
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posted on September 21, 2003 05:57:50 AM new
 
AIN'T LIFE GRAND... 
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CBlev65252
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posted on September 21, 2003 07:46:17 AM new
ROTFL! Oh, Roadsmith, I blush! Maybe you should find another word to use. That's way too funny!!! Maybe I should tell Ken to stop being such a grundle the next time we have a stupid argument!
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AuctionAce
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posted on September 21, 2003 07:57:22 AM new
Grundle remedy medicine on ebay ( might flatten old photos too ) 
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2952042883&category=1277
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