[78-L] Edge Bite

[J. E. Knox]

Greetings from FixitLand!

Michael Biel wrote:

> That figure of the glue thickness of .0015 is even more a bunch of
> hooey.  Maybe YOU have problems with misalligned grooves in glued
> records (you've often talked about your hand control problems), but  
> that
> is not my experience.  I recently put together a 5-piece record  
> just for
> the hell of it and it tracks -- let's see if the declickers can fix
> it!!  There were a bunch of edgebite discs that came in that same
> shipment (the cardboards were taped too tight)  and most of them fit
> together perfectly, sometimes even practically soundlessly.  I CAN do
> it.  It DOES work.  The liquid glue does NOT take up space when used
> sparingly on the rough broken edges.

I second that...awhile back, I acquired (after many years of  
searching) a gold-print copy of Glenn Miller's Bluebird B-11042-B  
"Ring Telephone, Ring" take 2 (purportedly only on "silver"-print  
copies), only to open the package and find it snapped in half.  
AAARGH! So I carefully super-glued it back together, applying the  
adhesive sparingly, and only to the rim and runout areas. Got it to  
play, and pulled a reasonable transfer off of it. Fortunately, I  
shortly thereafter scored an unbroken copy (also gold-print!) but I  
still have that broken-and-glued copy.

Same story for a copy of Bluebird B-5014 "Hold Me" by Little Jack  
Little...nice copy, but in two pieces. It's glued together with super- 
glue. Bad thing on this one is that it's badly under-recorded, so the  
clicks are harder to clean up -- and a second copy continues to elude  
me.

Finally, a Ralph Flanagan record from Canada (issued commercially  
only there) arrived in four or five pieces. As Mike did above, I  
glued it together and got it to play -- sorta. Fortunately, I have a  
US-issued vinyl DJ pressing, but it would've been nice to have an  
undamaged original Canadian issue...oh well. I'm sure there are some  
on this list who would prefer the disc remain broken...<grin>

Don't be afraid of super-glue...just keep it away from the grooves  
and use very sparingly. A little dab'll do ya. Oh, and it's gotta be  
fresh; the stuff has a shelf-life of about six months.

Take care,


Joe
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