[78-L] Pressing 78 RPM recordings

[Rodger Holtin 78-L]

That's what set Columbia apart from the pack. Their laminated layers allowed them to use the good stuff for the outside playing surface and used the coarse junk as the core. War time Victors are a little worse than the prewar stuff, declining as the war progressed.  I can see that by pulling stuff off my shelves in numerical order. It's obvious to the naked eye.  Deccas were always crappy and only got worse. I'm amazed that Capitols are as good as they are - only slightly better than Deccas - if any.  Oddly enough, however, I have had a couple samples from both Decca and Capitol that are very nice.  Gotta wonder who screwed up. Could be postwar repressings but being war-themed tunes I have my doubts. 

I would think the trace amounts of steel left behind would be nothing to contend with compared to the carborundum already in the mix. Those records were gritty when they were new and didn't smooth out much until the late forties. 

Sent from my iPhone, which explainz any bad typjng and nonsensical word choices.

> On Sep 15, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Michael Shoshani <michael.shoshani at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> During WW2, they weren't melted so much as pulverized and filtered into
> whatever small quantity of new stock was available. I've not seen mention
> of this, but I would imagine that part of the reworking process would
> involve a pass through strong magnets, to draw out the slight amount of
> detritus from the steel needles which, having been ground down/worn while
> playing, left bits behind in the groove that could damage the faces of the
> stampers.
> 
> By all accounts, these reprocessed records sounded dreadful compared to
> records made from new raw material.
> 
> Michael Shoshani
> Chicago
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Ron <ron at roscotron.com.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> What about melting down old 78's and reusing the material?  Wasn't that
>> done
>> during WW2??
>> 
>> Ron Roscoe
>> Northborough MA
>> 
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>> 
>> If you're looking for shellac, you won't find it. 78 RPM shellac records
>> had
>> many other ingredients including cotton flock, rottenstone, and carbon, as
>> well as different grades of shellac in the mixture - all carefully
>> processed, filtered, processed more, and all done on an industrial scale
>> both in raw supplies and in machinery that just doesn't exist anymore. The
>> entire infrastructure went into decline in the 1950s, and was moribund by
>> the start of the 1960s.
>> 
>> Vinyl is a different story.
>> 
>> Michael Shoshani
>> Chicago
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 3:28 AM, Maria Fletcher <
>> riajfletcher at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi list,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Does anyone know, anyone, anywhere, that can press a 78 RPM record?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> Maria
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