Old manual got wet

Is it "solid" or can you open the pages at all? If it's solid the only thing that I've been able to do is to soak them and peel the pages off one by one, IF I COULD! They usually come apart in pieces. If it has slick pages then they're probably coated with fine clay to give them the smooth surface. I've NEVER been able to get one of those apart. Even ones that are only sticking in spots will usually pull the coating (with pictures and text) off of one of the pages. The best bet is to open it and dry it BEFORE it dries in a solid mass. I've had good luck rescuing wet manuals. I open them and set them in front of a fan and dry them out. I keep opening it to different pages both to dry it evenly and to separate the pages before they're permanently stuck together. If I can, I stand it on edge and set the fan where it will flip the pages around. That saves me a good bit of manual labor. But you need to open it to EVERY page and make sure that none of them are stuck together. The secret is NOT to let them dry out on their own. If they do then some or all of the page will stick together. I've never had much luck getting them apart after they're dried. Joe At 03:49 PM 9/2/03 -0600, you wrote: