[78-L] inner sleeves on LPs

[David Lennick]

Chris is right on with this problem about plastic and plastic-lined sleeves. 
I've transferred a few hundred 50s LPs over the past year and have had to 
re-sleeve most of them. Many early LPs were issued in jackets that didn't have 
printed spines and are thus thinner (and pop apart frequently if they consist 
of two pieces of cardboard held together by the slick)..many RCA jackets WITH 
printed spines have curved inserts that prevent anything but a rounded Decca 
type plastic sleeve (or the bare disc itself) being inserted. Bags Unlimited's 
lightest 12" white sleeves fit the tight albums nicely. For ten-inch, there 
isn't much out there..luckily, I bought all Tom Hawthorn's brown paper sleeves. 
Very lightweight. They turned out to be too tight for many older 78s (Columbias 
et al) but they're great for ten-inch LPs, complete with label-sized hole.

dl

Chris Zwarg wrote:
> At 05:25 08.10.2008, you wrote:
>> The Europeans used the same type of inner-sleeves on 10- that they did 
>> for 12-inch but I only have retrospective knowledge of these, not first 
>> hand from seeing them at the time they were issued. 
> 
> All Electrola/HMV 10-inch LPs I've seen have an inner plastic sleeve glued to the inside of the outer cardboard cover, which does away with the nuisance of re-inserting the flimsy plastic thingy into the cover after playing. Unfortunately, a chemical substance in the soft plastic (PVC?) they used tends to damage the record surface after decades of storage, the records then look (and sound) like heat-damaged shellacs. The same thing happens with some types of loose plastic inner sleeves; in extreme cases the plastic sleeve sticks tightly to the record and renders the whole thing unplayable. Even if this hasn't happened to any of your early LPs yet (due to cool and dry storage conditions), it is safer to put the disc in a new paper sleeve and not in the original plastic one, though you might want to preserve the latter as an original artefact.
> 
> Chris Zwarg
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