I once had the 'luck' to get a badly cat-a-tized collection for free. Much of it had to be tossed just because of the smell, and many of the records were destroyed by the urine as it sat for a while; the surface in those spots was virtually disintegrated! ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:19 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cat-astrophy, was [ARSCLIST] Disaster recovery- LPs > "Steven C. Barr" wrote: >> >> The biggest problem (or so I thought) was going to be the fact >> that the resident felines had liberally marked their shellac >> territory. Oddly enough, the only problem I have seen so far >> is that discs, sleeves and boxes are, shall we say, odiferous... >> even a few records that I found in sleeves damp with...well, >> you know...seemed not to have suffered any permanent damage! >> It does seem to have rendered a number of labels illegible, >> however... >> >> I didn't exactly to make this test, but I thought I might >> share the results (in case anyone is offered old 78's by >> a cat-loving little old lady?)... >> >> Steven C. Barr > > Any time I borrow a record from Steve to transfer, I clean it on the > Monks, put > it in a new sleeve, stick it among the other records I'm going to use, and > my > cat is still all over it like a cheap suit. > > dl