[78-L] Albums (aka; ​ Re: how do you clean albums?)

[Darrell Lehman]

Is mailing from the US any better?  Contact me at nickjay49 at gmail.com if 
you want to pursue the topic.

DL (not be confused with, or representative of, "dl") (FUNNY FACE from 
an illiterate computer user)
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David Lennick wrote:
> I have dozens of empty albums but shipping would be through the roof.
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> dl
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> On 7/25/2017 11:12 AM, Inigo Cubillo wrote:
>> ​I usually do as Roger, but using a dry standard dust-cleaning cloth.​
>>
>>
>> ​BTW. I'd need some 200​ x 10-inch albums plus other 50 x 12-inch albums to
>> ​store
>> my whole collection. An old project postponed time after time because of
>> lack of album source, or
>> ​ enormous ​
>> c
>> ​ost.
>>
>> Can any of you suggest a good source of used albums in fair condition and
>> fair price? Time ago I tried Nauck, but he was out of albums. Years ago,
>> Hawthornes offered to supply albums, but shipping from america costed a lot
>> of money, and they also could supply only a few.
>>
>> I've also approached people in Madrid, Spain, as bookbinders and the like,
>> but they charge some $70 per album, $50 in huge quantities.
>>
>> So the cost, in th sweetest of dreams. could go up to pretty $2500 or so...
>> impossible.
>>
>> Finally, I decided to start making my own albums, and I've made... only
>> two. They look nice, but are too difficult to make by hand, one by one. It
>> would take years to complete the task. A third try is ongoing, using
>> Nauck's Disc-o-File sleeves, simply tied together as a book, and later
>> bound with rexine-covered cardboard covers, etc. It is a cheaper version,
>> and could work.
>>
>> But a good cheap source of machine-made albums... Does that thing still
>> exist somewhere?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> ​
>> Inigo Cubillo
>> Madrid, SPAIN
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