Re: (idm) warped records

From Mantoid
Sent Fri, Aug 27th 1999, 22:13

Or you can just put the record between two plates of glass and leave it
out in the sun (or your grow-lights, shame on you!) if you remember to
flip it after a while.  Worked on my wasted Astrud Gilberto wax! :)

vanessa


On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, solenoid wrote:

> 
> The public library I work at used to dewarp their records (rather than
> throw away a 10record opera set because one was warped, for instance):
> 
> You can heat the record in the oven (on very low!) and put it between two
> peices of thick glass when it gets saggy, then stack about 10
> encyclopedias (okay, "Books of Knowledge"-series technically...) on it and
> leave it for 12 hours.  I take no responsibility for what happens tho'!
> 
> Solenoid
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, `Pietro wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Sorry to plug the list with this thread, trust
> > me, it's the last thing i want to do. I just
> > received 2 warped records in the mail the
> > other day, the original owner claiming that
> > they were "mint" before shipping. Has anyone
> > "de-warped" a slab of vinyl? Please direct
> > all comments off-list, so as not to spread
> > the bandwidth any further with non-idm content.
> > (Although the records we're talking about are
> > by the folks at Emanate..) Thanks in advance..
> > 
> > Pietro.
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