 this is like one of the fears of the conservator that we just have to live with like you have to live with the knowledge that you might be truly ruining something at any given point and one of the ways that the profession has developed to deal with this is to apply a principle of reversibility which is to say that a lot of the adhesives we use or most of the adhesives we use we try to make sure that they are going to be reversible at some point that you can