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    Warped Vinyl

    Just wondering if anyone has come up with a good solution for warped albums? My lazy ass didn't want to carry my gear out of the vehicle at 4am after a party and the heat the next morning warped my freakin collection! I know I am a freakin idiot...but is there really and sound way of salvaging this collection?:sadblue:
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    dude i'm really sorry bout that -
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    all records get fucked up in the end though...

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    you can get 2 panes of glass, thick glass if you can, and you'll sandwich the record in between. turn your oven onto 200-degrees, and stick the record in to flatten it out. try it for 10 seconds at first, see what it does. if it takes longer, let it in 10-second-longer incriments, being VERY careful. this can destroy the record, you need to be vigilant about it...

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    Originally posted by Unfeign
    you can get 2 panes of glass, thick glass if you can, and you'll sandwich the record in between. turn your oven onto 200-degrees, and stick the record in to flatten it out. try it for 10 seconds at first, see what it does. if it takes longer, let it in 10-second-longer incriments, being VERY careful. this can destroy the record, you need to be vigilant about it...
    Interesting theory! I will have to check this out....first I need to find some glass. I can see my friends stopping by and I have oven mitts on and 12" vinyl baking up. :bolt:
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    can u use color changing glass?
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    I'd be verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry careful. . . . don't know if I'd use that much heat. I've HEARD of just placing it between two books and putting it on top of something mildly hot like your dryer. I think if it's too hot though, it'll ruin the grooves, even if you do flatten the record out.
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    Pick is right, it's very sketchy. i've heard of people using glass and putting stuff out in the sun for a little while, but the sun isn't as consistent as an oven.

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    Originally posted by DJPick
    I'd be verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry careful. . . . don't know if I'd use that much heat. I've HEARD of just placing it between two books and putting it on top of something mildly hot like your dryer. I think if it's too hot though, it'll ruin the grooves, even if you do flatten the record out.
    Actually, I might just try the dryer......i was wondering how much damage the strong heat would due to the grooves. My luck I would pull it out of oven and it would look like chewing gum stck on the bottom of a shoe. Not good! :scared:
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    I managed to pretty decently flatten out a record that arrived warped from the UK (frikkin recordstore.co.uk...dahhh!) - I just put that record at the bottom of a large stack of records every time, making sure it was sitting on a flat hard surface. eventually i think the pressure just mushed it flat, and now it plays fine.

    Someone posted on clubplanet (i think) a while back that they had figured something out by heating up a mug of hot water then placing that on the label or something, but I dont recall exactly how it was done :sadblue:


    Anyways - good luck! When did this happen? Over the summer, or did it get hot enough in the car ot do that just recently?
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    Anyways - good luck! When did this happen? Over the summer, or did it get hot enough in the car ot do that just recently? [/B]
    Yeah.....it happened recently! I feel sick to my stomach thinking about it! If I could kick my own ass I would.....thats how mad I am! :evilred: But yeah, its always hot out here in CA...I should have known better. See I am used to the East Coast getting freakin colder.....the thing is it is 95 during the day and 50 at night. Huge contrast! Thats why I thought it would be cool just to leave it in the car.
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    I would suggest just using a light bulb to create some radiant heat.

    be realy carefull

    try on a record that you don't like as much as the others first.

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    read this website.....
    never really thought about it, but the thickness of the record and the actual material (LP's are not all vinyl) makes a difference in 'unwarping' your rekkids.

    http://members.aol.com/clctrmania/cm-unwarp.html
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    my roommate ruined a couple records by putting them in the sun under glass, trying to unwarp them. be very, very careful.
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    I honestly don't think there is a way to do this without affecting the grooves.... you can try.... I'd love to hear a fool-proof way to fix warps.
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    if it's badly warped, consider it a lost cause. if it's not that bad, put it in between a bunch of really tightly-packed records in a crate for a few days.

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