[78-L] Jacket repair, was Re: 78-L Digest, Vol 10, Issue 16

[David Lennick]

I find 3M Mailing Tape (or Book Tape) expensive but excellent. The generic 
stuff at Staples is marginally better than nothing, unless anyone knows of 
specific store brands that are good.

For discs that have no jackets, you can buy blank jackets (white or colored, 
with or without a center hole) from places like Bags Unlimited..you can also 
find Disco LPs by the gazillions, often unused, at Goodwill and St. Vinny's and 
Record Theatre for low prices on occasion. I toss the disc and I get a jacket 
and an inner sleeve.

dl

Dan Van Landingham wrote:
> I would like to know just how to repair LP albums as I also have a large collection of 33s.As
> as rule I would keep on the lookout for an album like it provided the album jacket was in 
> good shape.Some of the albums I used as replacements were of a much later issue.As an 
> example,I would take a circa 1969 RCA(with the orange label that had the letters RCA on
> one side and Victor on the other)and put an older(1968 and earlier)in its place.
> 
> --- On Mon, 7/6/09, JD <jackson1932 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: JD <jackson1932 at cfl.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] 78-L Digest, Vol 10, Issue 16
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Monday, July 6, 2009, 4:53 PM
> 
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>> Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 21:35:54 -0700
>> From: pete ault <graffen47 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: [78-L] Ok Folks here it is, the 1 "dumb" question of the day
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>> There always has to be someone that comes along with a real winner so it 
>> might as well be me this time. An older friend of mine recently gave me 
>> his collection of records, mostly 33 12 inch LP's. My question involves 
>> the covers, some of these are so fragile, just taking the record out of 
>> the jacket causes them to break,then start tearing down the seams, either 
>> the back or top and bottoms also. My question is what can be done about 
>> this, and should i attempt a repair myself or is it better to just leave 
>> them alone. I'm looking at this from the point of view of wanting to sell 
>> eventually. I've noticed on a couple of the older album covers people 
>> tried to repair with tape and of course the tape yellowed and left marks 
>> on the cover itself, but leaving those awful tears only seems to make them 
>> worse everytime the record is handled. Is there an acceptable way to 
>> repair torn edges without further denigrating the value? Thanks for any 
>> help, and sorry for the dumb question. I just wan
>> t to make sure I do everything right before attempting to sell them.
>>
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> 
> Pete, this hardly qualifies as a dumb question.
> A few years ago I was contacted by a record dealer (since passed) who was 
> given my name by one of our (former??) members, himself  then a brick & 
> mortar dealer whose shop I'd frequented a number of times. He offered me 
> some surprisingly high prices for some of my LPs.  Prior to his visit I'd 
> been repairing my split sleeves with Scotch 600 tape in 3/4" width long ago 
> having graduated from the deteriorating horrors of  masking tape and similar 
> stuff. I thought I was doing the right thing. (When carefully repaired with 
> 600 the results can look almost professional or original. It's a clear tape 
> that I find is an excellent solution to this problem.  I learned of my 
> mistake when this chap informed me that  collectible LPs had greater value 
> when not repaired. He gave me $300. for a rare jazz album I'd very carefully 
> repaired but informed me that he would have given  $500. had I left it 
> untouched.  He also gave me  generous price on another jazz LP (original 
> condition) that I'd been about to throw out. The sleeve looked like a 
> Goodwill reject. On a subsequent visit to the record shop mentioned above I 
> noticed many old and pricey LPs with split sleeves that opened like a 
> gatefold album...no repairs. Needless to say I have given up repairing 
> anything I feel might  have eventual value. Those I store in the clear vinyl 
> sleeves mentioned by David Lennick. (available from 
> http://www.bagsunlimited.com/  and others)  Good luck!
> Jack
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