[78-L] Subject: Re: Collecting vs. 'Investing'

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Quoting "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
>> My father is a big collector of English bone china, especially that with
>> the Shelley brand. He also does repairs on broken collectibles of all
>> kinds (except records).
>>
> Note that it IS possible to "repair" broken 78's! I have had limited success
> with this; I use modern adhesives...and find that records which are broken
> "across the grooves" (i.e. in half, more or less) can easily be glued back
> together; however, records with a break running along a single groove
> are effectively unrepairable...the groove has a width of c. .003" so that
> the thickness of the necessary layer of adhesive usually displaces the
> broken piece far enough "outwards" that the needle can no longer
> reliably navigate the repaired break without winding up in the adjacent
> groove...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr

  I've had good results repairing records broken across the grooves, 
even by running tape across the less interesting side. How ever once a 
record is cracked or broken tensions in the body of the record will 
sometimes be released and one section or the other can swell or shrink- 
the result is that a crack can open further and not be made to meet.

  Eric Stott