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

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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.

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