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HELP!!!!! warped records

ok this idiotic friend of mine whom i lend my records to left my stack of records in his car for like 2 days when it was like 30celcius outside. when he gave it back to me...the records were all like seriously warped. OMG i am so @#$%#$^.
can someone please help me on how i can get the warped records back to normal. thanks

I've heard of people putting a record between two sheets of glass and leaving it into the oven on low heat for about an hour to flatten stuff out. I would do this only as a last resort for records you can not play at all, as you may just end up damaging your records in the process.

i have a fear that if you left your records in an oven you would melt the grooves together, and no more music =\

it's too bad i am totally against cd and mp3 mixers cuz otherwise i'd have allot more $$ and no vinyl problems! but oh well vinyl is what i love

I suggest you put your "friend" between two sheets of glass, and throw HIM in the oven.

no seriously.. try putting them under something heavy for a few weeks..

I just put half the records from one crate into a a lightly packed crate. put em in nice and tight so at the end i had to one by one shove the records in. i'll let you guys know what happened in a few weeks, because a few of those records were extremely warped.

this may just be my paranoia.. but im woundering, if i pack in records into my crate, then let em sit... well the records are really packed except for the last 2 inches at the top, where they are loose... think by any chance the records will get flat on the bottom but that one corner stay warped or become warped?

dazzed

yea, i have tried putting it undersomethign heavy, but it doesnt seem to work, i left it there for like a month and a half, but i changes back to what it was, y dont you tell your friend to buy you new records, if he complains about the price, tell that fool that you had to pay for them also, and if worst comes to worse, try the thing in teh oven, i dont know if it will melt the grooves together because you put them inbetween glass, i could mush the vinyl a little, but what good are a bunch of warped records that dont play

also dazed, i wouldnt pack them vertically in teh crate, i dont know,s omeone just told me never to store records vertically or flatly, or whatever, my dad says if you store records vertically, they warp, over time, so its your choice

so how would you store them then?

yah i don't think theres any other options... i'm gonna try packing em in vertically and just making sure each gets some play, so that they'll go back in after being rotated a little... oughta fix anything that could cause problems



dazzed

If I where u.. I`d let your friend pay them!

ok guys you were right about the glass idea, this is what you do:
you take your vinyl or 2 or 3 (although i havet tried with more than 1) and stick them between two sheets of glass that are bigger than the record (you can find them cheap at any hardware store). next and most importantly instead of putting them in the oven, put it on top of your refrigorator. that spot is usually a little bit warm - your refig repair man should know why (i forget right now). keep it there for a day or two and it should be striaght! it doesnt work if you put the record between books and then put it there because the glass will conduct the heat and let it slightly warm your record, books cant do that, although if you want to speed things up put a book ontop of the top glass sheet.

hey thanks for that piece of advice, i ahve some vinyls that i love but are a little warped and it pisses me off, so imma try taht, first gotta go and get soem glass, thanks
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Originally posted by liquidxxd also dazed, i wouldnt pack them vertically in teh crate, i dont know,s omeone just told me never to store records vertically or flatly, or whatever, my dad says if you store records vertically, they warp, over time, so its your choice

how the hell am i supposed to store my vinyl then? hanging by its hole on a string?

I figure suspend them in an anti-gravity chamber at absolute zero. that oughta stop the ******s from warping....


yah but anyway i'm gonna buy some glass and try storing them about 10 feet from my fireplace and see what happens... ill post all you about it.


dazzed

I fixed two of mine back to a playable condition by heating each record up with a blow dryer just for a min on each side. Then I put each one in between two big books. Two yearbooks for example. Left it sit for a while and repeated the process and let it sit and they came out in decent shape.

But i still say kick his ass!

did you notice any loss in sound quality?

I didnt notice any.....

While on Vacation in Brisbane (aust) i was walking past a record store, so i went in, and i couldnt believe my EYES!!! they had a copy of "Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel" Well Brisbane being so hot and all, all the travelling in the car, when i got home to play it was warped bad, one side, when i put the needle at the start it was so bent that it would jump and skip, so ive put it at the bottom of all my records and put some extra dumb bell weights and stuff, ill see the end result, if its successfull ill let u know, either way.

Hi all,

And????? did it work???

Greetings,
Blighty

well dude, mine work'd, not perfrectly straight but playable. its little warped on one side, about a 1cm up or down from about 3-4cm i rekon. worth a try.

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Originally posted by DJAhmet While on Vacation in Brisbane (aust) i was walking past a record store, so i went in, and i couldnt believe my EYES!!! they had a copy of "Paul Van Dyk - For An Angel" Well Brisbane being so hot and all, all the travelling in the car, when i got home to play it was warped bad, one side, when i put the needle at the start it was so bent that it would jump and skip, so ive put it at the bottom of all my records and put some extra dumb bell weights and stuff, ill see the end result, if its successfull ill let u know, either way.

do you mean you put it under all you records like sitting horizontally while everything else is vertical??

like this

IIIIIIII (<= vertical recods in a box or whatever)
-------- (your one horizontal record)

that sounds kinda harsh but maybe itd work.. ?

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Originally posted by patticus do you mean you put it under all you records like sitting horizontally while everything else is vertical?? like this IIIIIIII (<= vertical recods in a box or whatever) -------- (your one horizontal record) that sounds kinda harsh but maybe itd work.. ?

Vertical dude, and it works, i put some extra weights on top like weights from dumb bells which i think may of helped, i put a square piece before the weights so that the weights werent directly on top of the records and also so that the weight gets on it evenly.

Good Luck

It was easy, heat it up with a hair dryers on the side u like the least!! Then I sandwiched the vinyl between two yearbooks for a few hours and repeated a few times. The next day it was good enough to play...

so ahmet you're saying do it like my "diagram" ??
haha
ok.
cool..
now if only there were a way to fix scratches and records which were cut absolutely HORRIBLY

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