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I couldn't believe my eyes! I had a workshop tonight and we used the Letterpress Stamps and the rubber slid right off the gray part when the lady went to use it. Too bizarre! I guess with it being so hot in my stamping room the adhesive on some of the stamps softened up. I think that is a perfect excuse to get an air conditioner in my little stamping room (lol).... We generally don't get very hot weather but is has been about 80 deg. or so...I didn't think the adhesive would soften that much though. Anyone else have this happen to them???
I know that alot of people micorwave their stamps to unmount them. I haven't had rubber slide off like that though....but heat does loosen them apparently.
i stored( past tense until last year) stamps in a bedroom closet and during the summer about 10 had slid off the "grey" adhesive and were ruined. very sad, but the heat in that closet was very oppressive and i considered it a lesson learned.
jan
i stored( past tense until last year) stamps in a bedroom closet and during the summer about 10 had slid off the "grey" adhesive and were ruined. very sad, but the heat in that closet was very oppressive and i considered it a lesson learned.
jan
Not ruined........just reglue them
__________________ Jeanne S - Inky Paws SCS Moderator
Wow, I need to go check on mine. It has been 112-113 degrees here in Central California for the past 4 or 5 days. And I only have a water cooler and ceiling fans to keep the house cool. Pretty miserable. Thanks for the heads-up!
We generally don't get very hot weather but is has been about 80 deg. or so...I didn't think the adhesive would soften that much though. Anyone else have this happen to them???
I really doubt that 80 degrees would cause this to happen...I regularly keep my home between 78 -80 in the summer and have not had this problem.
There's a reason that the SU! packing boxes say "Do not place in direct sunlight".
Heat does indeed soften the adhesive, so leaving your stamps in your car is a big no-no as well.
In a recent shipment, the UPS truck must have gotten pretty toasty or the box sat in a hot environment for a period of time, because on the Flip Flop wheel that was in the box, the rubber had slid almost all the way off the wheel! I could not get it back on all the way, so I ended up giving the customer my own unused wheel and SU! sent me a new one.
But for stamps, it's comparatively simple to reglue with rubber cement when the rubber comes off the foam. The smaller stamps will often have this problem due to Stampin' Mist or other cleaning solutions coming between the rubber and the foam, not because of the heat. Either way, simply reattach with rubber cement.
I think it takes a lot of heat to cause a problem. I bought a set of stamps from this forum and they were delivered on a Friday, sat out in 105 degree heat for 4 days before I got back from vacation and they were fine. I did not touch them until they were totally room temperature again though. I have had reinkers be damaged by the heat though when they sat in the mailbox for a couple of days. Both of them leaked and I think that might have been from the heat.
Watch the heat and your stamps!
