[78-L] Source for 10-inch LP inner sleeves

[David Lennick]

I don't know where we're getting these figures from..and for what it's worth, I 
have somewhere in the vicinity of two to three hundred thousand records, and 
they DO have sleeves, with the exception of several hundred transcription discs 
which came to me with no sleeves (the sleeves were more valuable to the 
original owner than the discs) or which are in tattered sleeves dating back to 
the late 1930s. I could use between 500 and 1000 CHEAP sleeves for these, not 
card (I'm not going to explain for the 9000th time my reasons for not wanting 
card, which should be obvious in any event to anyone who's ever removed a 
pristine vinyl disc from a sleeve that has trapped a piece of grit) because 
they need protection from dust and other hazards, but which are not going to be 
played in the immediate future and which are not going to be cleaned until they 
are actually needed for play. I cited a much higher number of transcription 
sleeves because many collectors and libraries face the same situation, that of 
needing a better-than-nothing sleeve for these discs, and a bulk order will be 
more appealing to a manufacturer than an order for 500.

No disrespect to Kurt, and those Disc-O-File sleeves are great for laminated 
and shellac transcriptions, but not what I want for the other stuff.

dl

Howard Friedman wrote:
> Steven,
> 
> Someone is really getting to look like either a cheapskate or a pauper, I'm not sure which.  If one has a collection of as many as 50,000 records of any or all sizes, surely they must have had some sort of sleeve to hold them in the first place.  David wants paper sleeves (which are just about worthless) for, say, 10,000 items.  At 20 cents each that would cost him $2,000, and at Nauck's stated discount rate $700.  Plus the time to place each item in a sleeve, plus the time to put them back on a shelf in a usable order -- this could go on for weeks!  And then when he's finished, what has he actually got?  10,000 records in some sort of order, which would require 750 hours or more of straight through listening, plus changing time!
> 
> Quo vadis?
> 
> HowardSF
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