[78-L] ^How to keep 78s warm in a cold snap-another Dynaflex story

[Rodger Holtin]

COLD Winter day in Tennessee early 1970's our station manager brought in a bunch of mail that had been in his car overnight, including some records.  We opened the latest Dynaflex Jerry Reed record and slapped it on the turntable.  As that razor thin disc warmed up it popped into dish/bowl shape tossing the tonearm clear off the disc.  We yanked it from the turntable and set it aside.  As it warmed up, it regained some semblance of flatness.  Highly memorable moment, especially for the guy on the air at the time!  Not me, I was but a witness, but he is today a broadcast instructor and still gets a lot of mileage out of that story.

Rodger

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--- On Wed, 1/23/13, David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net> wrote:


From: David Weiner <djwein at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [78-L] How to keep 78s warm in a cold snap
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Cc: "JAZZ LIVES" <mstei at optonline.net>
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 9:32 PM


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