Allow me to guess! Food storage was the main goal you had in mind when you first bought your vacuum sealer, correct? Obviously, almost 9 out 10 buyers would say that having an effective food packaging solution was their foremost driver to purchasing this appliance. However, did you know that the same vacuum sealing instrument can be used for other applications? If you didn’t, don’t worry. We have you covered. With the next examples, we hope to trigger some mental exercises that steer your inventiveness in the right direction to grow your possibilities.
Media Devices and CDs
If you are older enough to have experienced and played vinyl records, you surely will attest that air, humidity and dust are the prime suspects to produce significant harm to our media. Keeping your blue-ray discs and DVDs in their cases may safeguard them from falls but they do nothing against our three main suspects. When you vacuum seal the cases and LP records in customized pouches, you in fact finish up protecting and preserving your media entirely for many years to come.
Important Documents
Just like the old saying says, one can never be too careful. What would be the difference between lamination and vacuum sealing? While both methods have demonstrated to be a helpful means to protect important documents, possibly vacuum sealing might have less weaknesses than lamination. If and when lamination gets damaged, most likely your document will also get damaged because the hard layer that protected the document would have been trespassed. Also, when a document goes through lamination it usually is applied to one single sample. With vacuum sealing, the user can place several important documents into one bag and vacuum seal them altogether.
Magazines and Books
Like every other wood product, paper products face oxidation problems when they are kept open “in the air” for too long. Books & magazines, even if you keep them in cardboard boxes, they will nonetheless “suffer” when exposed to moisture and air, and this will produce effects like mold growth, yellowing, and outbreaks.
Again, vacuum packaging these items will without doubt prevent these effects from expanding and you will keep the quality and readability of your books and magazines. Furthermore, throw some silica gel or a some packets of rock salt in addition to the process of vacuum sealing and this will help still more to reduce moisture exposure.
Emergency and Travel Kits
We all know about the challenges of travelling. Medicine bottles, cosmetics, toiletries and similar products pose a challenge as the liquid inside them can easily spill out. If one vacuum seals these products practically this trouble disappears and not only that, it is easier to pack the bag!
When you prepare for extreme –disastrous- situations it basically implies to having the appropriate material and kits all set for its rapid and effective use. In other words, the reader can vacuum seal gauze tapes, gloves, surgical material, and band aids into one or several pouches and have them fit nicely and tidily into your first aid bag.
Using your imagination and trying to fulfill the immediate and other applications of your vacuum sealer can give the reader a distinctive advantage when dealing with common and emergency situations.