Storage bags vs tube

[Bullionbilly]

Hi,

Just got a few more coins to my collection and looking at storing them in a safe in the bags shown in the picture,  is that better than the tube for maintaining mark free / milk spot free coins ?

 

[morezone]

Those Chinese bags contain PVC so not recommended for long term storage.

[Bullionbilly]

31 minutes ago, morezone said:

Those Chinese bags contain PVC so not recommended for long term storage.

Thanks for the heads up,  are the capsules a better idea tgan the bags  ? 

[ifing]

46 minutes ago, morezone said:

Those Chinese bags contain PVC so not recommended for long term storage.

You had a lot of dealing with Chinese, right? They are selling capsules, cointubes, etc.. on ebay from china. But I can't find what kind of plastic they use. Something you know of?

[morezone]

If you want to store them individually, then a good quality capsule would be a better option.  QB capsules are not cheap though and harder to come by.  If buying cheap Chinese, I do not know if those capsules will contain PVC and/or other chemicals which could affect silver.

If it's long term storage, I would personally just vacuum seal the tube and not bother with caps.  Saves space and cheaper.

[Bullionbilly]

3 minutes ago, morezone said:

If you want to store them individually, then a good quality capsule would be a better option.  QB capsules are not cheap though and harder to come by.  If buying cheap Chinese, I do not know if those capsules will contain PVC and/or other chemicals which could affect silver.

If it's long term storage, I would personally just vacuum seal the tube and not bother with caps.  Saves space and cheaper.

Yes its long term storage, vac seal as in the bags you hoover the air out of ? ( please excuse my technical term) haha.

[morezone]

Just now, seXes said:

You had a lot of dealing with Chinese, right? They are selling capsules, cointubes, etc.. on ebay from china. But I can't find what kind of plastic they use. Something you know of?

I know those little bags are marketed as PVC bags so definitely contain PVC.  I have no idea about capsules and coin tubes.  I would imagine they probably would regardless of their claim since it is cheaper to produce and Chinese sellers on the whole are not so honest or have no idea or little info about the product they sell.  Specialised sellers will know but most sellers just sell everything and anything and will have no idea.

[morezone]

Just now, Bullionbilly said:

Yes its long term storage, vac seal as in the bags you hoover the air out of ? ( please excuse my technical term) haha.

Kind of.  Food vacuum storage.

[Bullionbilly]

5 minutes ago, morezone said:

Kind of.  Food vacuum storage.

Thanks,  ill have a look.

 

[Gilver]

I use "Air-tites" for few years now and I hadn't have any problems. Many Chinese sellers on ebay sell their capslues as "Air-tites" so I source them directly from Air-tites.com. They advertise them as "These coin capsules are hard, crystal clear acrylic, and contain no PVC to damage your coins." I tried to use Lighthouse - Leuchtturm capsules but I found that I prefer Air-tites.

[barsenault]

Here is a a video showing vacuum sealing.  

 

Youtube video.