perhaps if you had cleaned the record and then applied it, it might have
prevented any additional contamination to the record surface

joe salerno


Steven Smolian wrote:
> I particularly like the phrase, "archivally sound." Double meaning?
>
> There used to be a spray product whose name escapes me. It put a
> rubber-cement like layer on the disc which was then to be pealed off.
> We all called it "Disco-snot." It was much less effective than
> LAST-type liquids.
>
> Steve Smolian
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 6:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Clean LPs with wood glue?
>
>
> A new invention from an Australian TV program -
> A new invention and new approach to cleaning vinyl LPs
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MJT7fW1xMU
>
>
>
>
> The before image shpows much surface trash, and after image show that it
> is gone. It says nothing, for as long as I bothered to read, that
> addressed the garbage at the bottom of the groove.
>
> joe salerno
>
>
> Alex Hartov wrote:
>> Did you check the date of the posting?
>> On Apr 1, 2010, at 9:08 AM, Jeremy Smith wrote:
>>> 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
>>> Verizon-Du Bois Metadata Specialist
>>> Special Collections and University Archives
>>> University of Massachusetts-Amherst
>>> 154 Hicks Way
>>> Amherst MA 01003
>>> http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/
>