Unwarping Records....

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Mon Aug 01, 2005 10:08 am

robert lowell wrote:i got some promos recently the same way... the post office put a rubberband on the records making them into a taco. i need to do some more heating and bending but they are almost playable on both sides again. if they are really bowl wavy shaped then you might be sh!t outta luck... good luck with that.

a good idea for anyone shipping records. get a do not bend stamp & a protect from heat stamp from your local office supply store. its not 100% reliable but it helps.

I'll use those stickers the next time I'll send you some stuff, cause those stickers I got from you are AWESOME !!

robert lowell · Post by **robert lowell** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:13 pm

I'll use those stickers the next time I'll send you some stuff, cause those stickers I got from you are AWESOME !!

thanks, much apprecaited

i'm glad you liked them.

fredrik_h · Post by **fredrik_h** » Wed Nov 30, 2005 8:13 pm

Got 3 records today that were bowl-shaped and/or quite wobbly (ofcourse the 3 most important records of the order I made)... also thinking about trying to unwarp these.

sending them back would cost as much as buying them new I'd guess.

pheek: 200f, how much is that in celcius? and how heavy should the items that you put the record between? to avoid to destroy the actual tracks on the record?

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mayzee · Post by **mayzee** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:51 am

I saw some thing on the web once about putting the records b etwene 2 sheets of toughened heatproof glass in the oven to unwarp...

dunno if that was one of jesse's links, but it seems a *fairly* feasible method...

csmak4u · Post by **csmak4u** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 10:25 pm

thats bullshit that they would send you warpped records

if these to badly warpped im not sure if you can save them so just send them back, but usually you can just set them in the middle of your record pile and that should striaten them out

fader · Post by **fader** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 2:52 am

i tried putting heavy weights for a long time on 2 that were warped but that didn't help much. and it are promo's so it's not like i'm able to send them back

another time i went to exchange it in the shop..

i just wonder, if it takes that much to unwarp them, how fucking badly have they been treated in the mail or where ever to get that warped?!

vermi · Post by **vermi** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:36 am

hm.. i had four records that were a bit warped some months ago.. managed to get them all back to normal.

just put some records on the floor, then those which were warped, and then about 100+ records upon them again

after a few days there were back to normal again

though could imagine that it only works on records that aren't way too warped..