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/ >