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Lou: I don't know exactly what they have other than some are older Edison 78s and most are more modern 33s. I didn't specify, as the thread I was following up on was talking about vinyl or shellac platters-not CDs or glass masters. To be a little more specific, this is an archive that wants to job the work out. We don't do platters at our lab (We just do tape- and the occasional CD, DVD or MO). They have about 50 boxes of "records" with fungus and are looking for potential vendors to handle the cleaning. As an archive, they are also particularly interested in saving the album covers and labels as well as the discs. They consider the entire "package" as worth saving-not just the recorded content. Also, I don't know just how many discs they have in the boxes but I figure, maybe 10 to 20 discs per box? 50 boxes could add up to a reasonable amount of cleaning and the archive really doesn't want to do this in-house. Peter Brothers SPECS BROS., LLC 973-777-5055 [log in to unmask] Tape restoration and disaster recovery since 1983 -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lou Judson Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 6:01 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] RV: [ARSCLIST] Cleaning of grooved discs- how about fungus? Wouldn't it be useful to say what kind of grooved discs they are? After all, even CDs have grooves ( well, not really, just spirals of pits) but Lps, 78s, vinyl, Shellac, glass, cardboard? Even 45 singles are grooved discs! Just a simple question... <L> Lou Judson . Intuitive Audio 415-883-2689 On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:04 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > We have a client with a number of boxes of grooved discs with > fungus. Any > suggestions about techniques or labs that offer the service would be > appreciated. The client is also very interested in preserving the > album > covers and treating the labels at the center of the discs. > > Peter Brothers