Roger Kulp wrote:
> No damage from a worn stylus is very different.

OK.  There is one thing that hasn't been mentioned.  Some records like 
Victrolac, 4-minute black "wax" Amberols,  and  some plastics develop a 
haze on them that is wiped off when a needle traces it.  Perhaps this is 
what has happened.  However, you have mentioned how stubborn this is to 
cleaning, and usually the records that can have the film wiped off with 
the needle can also be cleaned.  The question arises, have you tried 
playing the hazy part to see if it clears up?  What cleaning methods 
have you tried?

Mike Biel  [log in to unmask] 

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> --- On Tue, 12/1/09, Steven C. Barr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> From: Steven C. Barr <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pressing Haze: Help Needed
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> Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 5:58 PM
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Levinson" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Don-
>> You are suggesting that one pass with a very worn stylus produced this kind of greying? That seems kind of hard to fathom considering all
>> the other anecdotal evidence that suggests that Mercury and Emarcy seem to exhibit this "record cancer" when almost no other labels do?
>> I have seen many records that have been played by a worn stylus and are greying but none that I have ever seen, stop so abruptly as this record does.
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> Very possible! I once inadvertantly did the same thing to a LP disc I owned;
> I had bought and installed a new LP needle, which turned out to be either
> very damaged or mis-manufactured! I installed the new needle, then started
> playing an LP disc...and noticed the disc was being "greyed" as it was played!
> I took the needle back to the store, where they looked at it with their microscope
> and told me to STOP USING IT! The disc thereafter played with much noise
> audible in the greyed segment...fortunately, the album was still available, so I
> bought a replacement. I could identify the damaged copy through the fact that
> the first, and part of the second, cut was visibly "greyed!"
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