[78-L] Capitol schmutz

[Malcolm Rockwell]

No, no, no, PhotoFlo is used for breaking the surface tension of water 
and can be used safely on any 78 - shellac , vinyl or lacquer. It's 
Kodak Lens Cleaner that works on lacquer schmutz! What I'm looking for 
is the water to Lens Cleaner ratio (if any).
Mal

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On 7/17/2011 9:05 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> 1:200 is the standard mixture (PhotoFlo and Steam Distilled Water) but you can
> go to 2:200 for oilier discs. I find that exuded stuff on thousands of records
> and I don't know if it's from the shellac or some interaction with the material
> in the sleeve. It almost never turns up on 78s that were housed in dry cabinets
> in green sleeves at CFRB and the CBC Toronto, but similar discs in similar
> sleeves from CBC Halifax are always gooped up.
>
> dl
>
> On 7/17/2011 2:58 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> I've been going through my Blues 78s for the first time in years and
>> getting myself reacquainted with them. I had forgotten just what was
>> there and many were uncataloged so there are quite a number of pleasant
>> surprises!
>>
>> Anyhow, one odd surprise was finding a copy of Leadbelly on red label
>> Capitol 40130 (Irene b/w Backwater Blues). from the early 50s. Both
>> sides were covered in this partially hardened white glop that resembles
>> the castor oil exudate one finds on lacquers. I've never seen this occur
>> on a shellac and the records surrounding it are all fine. Could it be
>> that Capitol was playing with their formulation? The disc "rings" like a
>> regular shellac but sounds somewhat duller, as if it's not a normal
>> shellac mix. Could it have been plasticized enough for it to "mold"?
>>
>> Anyone else find a Capitol doing this?
>>
>> On a related note, Kodak Lens Cleaner seems to work (whereas my regular
>> cleaning solution does not work well at all), but not as well as it does
>> on lacquers.
>>
>> Would somebody please refresh me on the correct water to lens cleaner
>> ratio I should be using for lacquers?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Malcolm
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