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Flattening warped vinyl

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mont3552

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Ok i bought a new record the other day, and its warped, bad. It bounces the tonearm out of the groove outward and won't even play, until you manually move the arm to the second track. Is there a way of "re-flattening" a record? Maybe leaving it out in the sun on a piece of glass? any history on trying something dumb like this?
 
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Are you using a record clamp? They are easy to make. Take an old mayo lid (or Peanut Butter if thats your style) and drill a hole. I believe its a 9/64 hole. Run a search, you will find it.

It will help to a certain point. Although yours sounds like it might be real bad.
 
TheCrunge said:
Are you using a record clamp? They are easy to make. Take an old mayo lid (or Peanut Butter if thats your style) and drill a hole. I believe its a 9/64 hole. Run a search, you will find it.

It will help to a certain point. Although yours sounds like it might be real bad.
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Hockey puck..., drill a hole in a hockey puck :banana:
 
Place between to peices of glass place in sun or oven at 110-120 F, works like a charm. Heck you can buy a nice oven for $1500, WAF very high !
 
i would be afraid it wouldn't get 100% clean before putting it in, thus melting all the dust and debris on the record.
 
This guy can help you out:

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brucered said:
i would be afraid it wouldn't get 100% clean before putting it in, thus melting all the dust and debris on the record.
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It doesn't "melt" the vinyl, it softens it just enough to relax the tension between the vinyl strands that causes the warpage. You won't "melt dust and debris into the vinyl". The two-pieces-of-glass-and-sun method is well documented from many years of vinyl life. Do a search.
 
OvenMaster said:
What's always worked very well for me has been a hair dryer on low heat.
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i tried that one a few times, never worked. what did work was an iron on LOW in between a towel. run the iron over the towel a few times on "LOW" and keep working it. i tried it on a goodwill vinyl, came out ok, but i got a little enthusiastic and tried to get the last little wobble out and melted it (i turned up the heat). that came from a google search too.

i'll have to get a couple wapred lps from the 2nd had store and give a few methods a try.
 
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