I used to have several "American Family Robinson" transcriptions (now
at Duke) from WBS that were brown acetate and, yes, smelled of
vinegar. I've got some "Red Horse Ranch" brown acetate WBS
transcriptions that also smell of vinegar.
The "Red Horse Ranch" discs are starting to curl.
Randy
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> By the way, as confirmation that the Western Electric floppy pressings
> are acetate, I have notice vinegar syndrome in non-brown pressings on
> this material. The clear ceremonial disc with an imbedded newspaper
> clipping given to Arthur C. Keller now owned by John Newton smells
> strongly of vinegar. I have a set of 16-inch ETs pressed in blue
> material like this which smell of vinegar. They have labels which were
> flipped over to the blank side but have Western Electric logos on the
> hidden side. But I have never smelled vinegar on World Broadcasting
> System discs, but the WBS catalogs in the mid 30s offer the discs in
> floppy acetate or stiff vinylite.
>
> Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
>
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