[78-L] Edge Bite

[David Lennick]

What's the Flanagan?

dl

On 5/5/2011 3:50 PM, J. E. Knox wrote:
> 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
> --
> "If their claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro."--Bruce Fogle
>
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