[78-L] How to keep 78s warm in a cold snap

[David Weiner]

Think I've told this story before, but what the heck. Back in the late
70s, I subbed as host for Rich Conaty's BIG BROADCAST show at Fordham U
several times; one especially cold winter night, I had already done a
three-hour radio show at Hofstra U and then drove up to the Bronx for
another three hour program, with the discs sitting in the trunk of my car
all afternoon and evening. When I got to the Conaty show, one of the first
records I pulled was a super-thin Dynaflex Paul Whiteman LP from the RCA
Vintage series. To my horror, when that cold platter hit the warm
turntable mat, it immediately and completely folded up like a tulip! After
a few seconds, thankfully, it began to slowly return to normal and settled
down flat. Wonder what the scientific explanation for that is?

Dave Weiner

On 1/23/13 10:22 PM, "L78rpm at aol.com" <L78rpm at aol.com> wrote:

>Hundreds of discs in my "secondary" collection, accumulating and stored
>in  
>my finished basement for years, are now in my unheated garage.  The
>reason:  Sandy the Storm left seven feet of water in my basement, rising
>to  
>within three inches of my living quarters.  Everything there was
>destroyed;  but 
>during the necessary cleanout/cleanup I did manage to get most but not
>all  
>of the 78s out and into the garage.  (The discs I consider important are
>elsewhere.)
> 
>I decidedv that the best thing to do was to get them out of their wet
>sleeves and albums and dry them off.  (The wet paper holding them went
>out  to 
>the curb.)   I did manage to do this.  My understanding is  that dry 78s
>can 
>withstand cold as long as they are not exposed to  moisture.  They will
>be 
>there all winter. 
> 
>In the spring I will determine whether I am correct.
> 
>Paul Charosh
> 
> 
> 
>In a message dated 1/23/2013 5:57:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>
>Follow-up....customer was very pleased. I used an insulated pizza
>pick-up 
>bag 
>and kept the item under an emergency blanket in the car for  the hour
>when 
>I had 
>to leave it parked. Since it was the Carl Kress Decca  set, I didn't want
>to run 
>the risk of extreme cold doing  anything.
>
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