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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8808 Registered: 05-2005 |
I left Microdisney's The Clock Comes Down The Stairs on the turntable and it got warped to shit in the searing Australian summer heat. I searched the internet for a possible fix. One suggestion was to put it in the microwave with a glass half-filled with water in the middle, and zap it on full power for two minutes. That did not go well. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 4057 Registered: 03-2005 |
Poor Padraig. And it just had to be "Clock." I remember when I used to get a warped record, I'd put it on the floor under a heavy stack of large books and leave it there for at least a week. Never did any good but never did any further harm either. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1938 Registered: 08-2006 |
I once ironed a warped record — I think it was a Springsteen bootleg I'd paid a hefty sum for — with a slightly damp towel over it. It kinda worked. It was never perfect but it didn't destroy the grooves. It just didn't get it perfectly flat. | ||
| Simon Withers Member Username: Sfwithers Post Number: 578 Registered: 08-2005 |
Pádraig, saw your fine piece on Microdisney in the Guardian - lovely writing (says one journo to another!). This has to be a band I'll revisit; listened to them once in the 80s and didn't get on with them, but I know from experience that my tastes have changed. Plus, there are other methods of flattening records that sound equally fraught, such as putting a record between two sheets of glass and then heating it all in the oven. What could possibly go wrong?! | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 8810 Registered: 05-2005 |
Simon, thank you. Do give Microdisney another chance. I know what you mean about taste changing over the years. I saw the two sheets of glass method too and, believe me, if I’d had two sheets of glass (or was three sheets to the wind) I’d have tried it. Good job I didn’t and wasn’t. | ||
| ric Unregistered guest |
resign yourself to it being warped & make it into an actual clock - the movement & hands only cost a few quid. |