[78-L] old album sleeves and covers

[David Lennick]

If a sleeve contained a record that needed cleaning, don't even think about 
re-using it. Unless it's a 16" sleeve and you can't hardly get them no more 
(two points if you recognize THAT). I do repair sleeves when I have no choice 
but to re-use them (16" for example), but I repair them by taking a strip of 
paper no more than 3/4" wide and the length of the tear and folding it to cover 
the tear, then using 2" packing tape over that area, so that stickum is never 
going to come in contact with the record. If this is aesthetically undesirable, 
3M makes a "removable" version of Scotch Tape that has about as much stickum as 
a post-it note, and if you're careful and the tear or split is clean, you can 
use that to tightly close the gap and then use the 2" stuff over top of it, 
since if it's tightly repaired there's less chance of the disc coming in touch 
with what little stickum there is.

One of the dumbest things I've ever seen was a library that re-sleeved all its 
78s in brand new expensive .6 card sleeves (with no windows) but didn't bother 
to clean the records first. So you (meaning I, since they tossed thousands of 
these records as duplicates) ended up with grungy oily records in sleeves that 
were now also grunged up. Our tax dollars, people..

dl

On 4/27/2012 10:23 PM, Rjholtin wrote:
> They are still a great way to protect records if you have little or no budget for replacements, but I have learned the sticky edge problem, too.  Nasty.  I did a batch of these last summer and learned to use the excess (flange, if you will) that most of the album sleeves afford to make a fold and careful cut that won't bulk up nor leave stickum.  It does take thought and a little practice and is better than nothing.
>
> Just a tip for the newbies.
>
> The biggest issue I have with old album sleeves is plain old dirt.  Sometimes you can wipe 'em out with a damp rag and sometimes they're more trouble than they are worth.
>
> Little doubt the covers make great shelf dividers and lots of other things.  A few years ago I bought some plastic sleeves for CDs designed for a three ring binder and assembled the whole thing like an album of CDs.  Kinda neat until I dropped it and it splayed all over the floor so badly torn that I tossed it as I probably should have done in the first place, but it was a fun project for a long, cold, dark, shivery evening when my health and convenience compelled me to stay indoors.  Two points if you recognize that :-)
>
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> Sent from my iPod
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> On Apr 27, 2012, at 5:41 PM, "J. E. Knox"<rojoknox at metroeast.org>  wrote:
>
> Greetings from FixitLand!
>
> Fred Lowenhaupt wrote:
>
> I use the envelopes as individual sleeves just cut them out and
> tape the cut side with shipping tape. I have hundred or records in
> these homemade sleeves.
>
>
> David Lennick wrote:
>
> And you probably have sticky records. Not a good idea.
>
> I second that. Whenever I get records in "reclaimed" cut-up album
> sleeves, I re-sleeve them and toss the album sleeves. Unless I can't
> avoid it, I keep anything with stick-um away from records.
>
> Take care,
>
>
> Joe
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