[78-L] Record torture

[David Lennick]

I have stored records in cold areas for decades..the only ill effects occur 
when there's moisture nearby, such as on a garage floor, or when records are in 
plastic lined sleeves (those things have their place, but it's in moderate 
regions indoors).

dl

On 1/6/2012 2:05 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Not having anything better to do the other day, I decided to torture a record.  We were experiencing the coldest day of the season, (-16 degrees C.), so I took a standard Victor 78 rpm record in excellent condition and placed it naked in a box.  I then placed it in my back yard.  The box would shield it from wind and precipitation but would not protect it from the cold.  The box was white so it wouldn't absorb any heat from the sun.  I wanted as much as possible to simulate the situation that the records in my outdoor storage units experience.  I have stored records in my garage for years but one and a half walls of the garage abut the house so some heat comes from that.  This record suffered further because I took it directly from the warm house to the cold outdoors, (the heat variance in the units is gradual), and then a couple of days later brought it directly back into the warm house.  The record survived with flying colours!  No damage
>   whatsoever!  So I guess extreme cold and rapid temperature changes don't hurt 78s after all.
>
> If we have another cold spell, this record may spend some more time in the box, because -16 isn't by any means the coldest temperature Toronto experiences in a normal winter!
>
> db