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

[David Lennick]

I'd try it first with a duplicate.

dl

Don Chichester wrote:
> Someday I am going to try to close the gap (in a cracked record) by using the same method I flatten warped discs, only this time I'll try to force the gap to close--before the record cools.  The 'click' will remain, but the gap might be lessened.  Worth a try, on a hot summer afternoon.
> 
> Don Chichester
>  
>> Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 21:55:51 -0400
>> From: estott at localnet.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Subject: Re: Collecting vs. 'Investing'
>>
>> 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
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