…well??
Unfortunately Mrs B had other plans for my day off… 
Hopefully tonight. I want to hook up the turntable to the PC to do a before/after playing comparison.
Spending a day on what may prove fruitless audiophile activity wasn’t considered worthy enough to jump ahead of assorted chores… heathen…
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You need to train her better. My other half insisted that tomorrow was the day to leave early to go xmas shopping, I stated I was going to a rather large garage sale starting at 0830 and we could go when that finished. We are going when it finishes, I expect I’ll be getting my own tea later. For the record I actually cook 3-4 nights a week anyway.
I truly am interested in the results by the way, but I don’t hold out much hope.
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Right…
I’ll preface this by saying this… my worst affected ones were actually not too bad. A 12" single with definite signs of misting mimicking the crumpled pvc sleeve on one side…
A 7" single with misting across almost the whole of one side…
Neither were chronic and both played fine.
So I followed this video to the letter initially…
Believe it or not, it’s quite effective. It took a couple of passes and it didn’t remove it all, but it certainly removed a lot of it…
After shots…
In the end I found PlastX on its own did the job reasonably well (I used it alone on the 7" single).
I’m not sure what the ScratchX did other than leaving a residue which took a bit of getting off.
Sonically, I couldn’t hear much of a difference between before and after recordings of the 12". The background crackle on the 7" was slightly reduced in the after recording, but it wasn’t by a lot.
So there you go…
Would it work for a chronic case and make it playable? Dunno, but it’s possible. For mine, the difference was mainly aesthetic. It did make them more pleasing to the eye and did absolutely no damage.
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Erasure was a good choice…
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Hangovers from when I used to collect Vince Clarke stuff…
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Might have to try it. I got two old Bob Dylan records it happened to. I wont try it on the Hendrix boxset until i know its fool proof…as I am quite the fool.
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Looks like I’ll have to go back and read the last week or so of this thread, looks like some important info for a fairly new ‘collector’.
Saturday morning Fuzz Session with The Machine: Solar Corona…and a coffee of course. My day may have peaked early.
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I went through my collection and found a heap of the PVC sleeves (all removed now and no damage that I could see). It seems they were mostly albums from the 80s and other re-releases that were purchased new in the 80s.
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It’s a really interesting phenomenon. I had records in pvc sleeves both out on shelves and also away in boxes. It was exclusively those out on shelves that had any damage. That makes me wonder whether there’s also a photolytic component to the outgassing.
The really interesting thing though is that all of damaged ones were affected on one side of the vinyl only. That really doesn’t make any sense to me…
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Those are two excellent Lightnin Hopkins and Leo Kotke records.
If you happen to be in the area we are hosting another Record Fair. There will be eleven sellers and a gentleman from the Blue Mountains is bringing down a cleaning product to demonstrate.
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https://youtu.be/IB6ecERjY7k?si=OIX_y21pPDCKiJGh
Stephen will be welcomed and he is coming from the Blue Mountains to show us the value of his cleaning solution.
Love your set-up.
Jelly af.
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I love and respect your passoin for music wim. But I strongly suspect if you were to flip threw my collection, you’d find not much to suit your taste…except for Revolver…I think we both love Revolver.