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

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

If a blank or recorded disc is still wet with palmtric acid then I'd clean that off with Windex & distilled water before I tried cleaning the disc on my Monks. Don't want to get that stuff (the wet palmtric acid) on the turntable.....



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>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:25 PM
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Sixteen inch Audio-Disc transcription blanks
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>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
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>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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