[78-L] Washing records - ARC

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One thing I just learned.  I recently acquired an old blue shellac AMERICAN RECORD COMPANY disc with COAX ME on it.  What I learned was DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CLEAN IT WITH ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL!  Everywhere the alcohol touched left a dull rough surface.  This lovely record now has about 1 square inch of damaged surface.  Should have done a test patch on the blank backside first.  Rats!  CDB

--- On Thu, 2/11/10, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:


From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Washing records
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010, 10:51 PM


DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Michael Biel wrote: 
>
> But you have to COMPLETELY dry the records and keep them dry in order 
> for this to happen.  There are also different grades of shellac, and the 
> shellac used for Red Seal records is well known to be more resistant to 
> water and moisture damage than used in black label Victors.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Most of the records I've washed in this manner have been RCA red seals 
And as I said, these are very immune to the same moisture damage a black 
label Victor!!!

> and I always dry them as much as and as fast as possible in order not to leave water marks.  I hesitate to wash Columbias because of the possibility of water getting in between the layers and causing damage.  But aside from buying an umpteen thousand dollar cleaning machine, what is considered to be the safest way to clean shellac records?
>
> db
>
>   
This sounds like a job for Dr. Dwayne!!    http://www.discdoc.com/p14.html
http://www.discdoc.com/p1.html

Mike (the other doctor) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

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