Right, basically, if you have a warped record, it can spin like nobodys business when you touch or manipulate it. It only happens when the vinyl is in the up position, according to the warp, like a bowl.

Solution:

Have a spare slipmat, that you don't mind being butchered. Cut out the centre of said slipmat. Cut it so you have an O, that has a thickness of about 3 inches. Place this on top of your existing slipmat. Place bowed vinyl on top. Problem solved via reintroduction of friction.

Take your new tool with you at all times.

Jarv

PS I miss vinyl.

Good suggestion.

Otherwise you can go for the warp removing process of sticking the warped record next to a radiator (lie it flat on the floor by the radiator rather than leaning it against it) for a few hours to soften it up a little then sticking it in the middle of a stack of 150 or so records so that it's got about 10 below it and the remaining 140 above it, then just let gravity do it's work over the course of a couple of days.

Thanks to this, I can now play the copy of Cafe Del Mar I got from Oxfam Music for 99p - awesome!

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Point made about that vinyl, though I slapped another on there and theres a momentary pause after I let go. I was under the impression that this is normal and that I have to give it a bit of help on its way. Can anyone speak to this?

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Desperate Housenerd.