Years ago...before we knew better...many of us used to clean lacquer discs by applying a coating of rubber cement to the disc and then peeling it off...carefully.
 
Karl

--- On Thu, 4/1/10, Jeremy Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


From: Jeremy Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Clean LPs with wood glue?
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 8:08 AM


Maybe not the most time efficient, or archivally sound practice, but something I hadn't heard of before....

http://lifehacker.com/5495614/use-wood-glue-to-clean-and-restore-old-lps

-- Jeremy Smith
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