[78-L] Sixteen inch Audio-Disc transcription blanks

[David Lennick]

As the Disc Doctor notes, he has products that deal with all sorts of problems 
affecting all kinds of discs, but Windex is fine for the palmitic acid. It 
should be wiped off and then you should give the discs a rinse with distilled 
water (it's a bit more complicated than that when you use a professional disc 
cleaner like the Monks, where the formula is PhotoFlow and Distilled Water and 
remove it with the vacuum pump). Gilles St-Laurent of Canada's National Library 
or Public Archives or whatever it's called this week in two official languages 
(why not Inuit, eh?) had suggested using a 10% ammonia solution some years ago, 
and Graham Newton and I thought of trying Windex since it contains ammonia.

dl

On 7/17/2012 5:59 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> Wow, so glad I asked about the transcription discs, and am particularly
> delighted in knowing there's Windex and paint thinner on my shopping list.
> I'd written some of the transcriptions off because the whole disc was
> covered with live gunk. However, I'm checking to see if my Windex is
> original formula, and will proceed.
>
> The old commercials should be my first reclamation project. Like old
> snapshot photos from any earlier age, the chance to see how life was
> actually heard or seen on any given date in time puts me right there,
> slightly bewildered by the distance in time, but feeling the earlier time
> as I listen or see.
>
> Finally, I may offer the disc blanks on eBay, figuring anyone looking for
> them would check there first. Or, perhaps trade them for CDs filled with
> the past.
>
> Thank you all,
>
> Dennis Flannigan
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