Just wondering if anyone has come up with a good solution for warped albums? My lazy assdidn'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...
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: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...
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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.
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.
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: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.
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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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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.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]
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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.
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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