cleaing old vinyl with glue...

[Biscuit Gravy]

Fredericks, have you truly had luck with this?

I've previously looked at a few sites online describing the process, but frankly it makes me too nervous to try it. 

I recall you saying that you diluted the glue with water before applying it.  what kind of glue did you use, and can you give me any further insight into this?

my Roxy Music thanks you.

[fonpr]

Fredericks, have you truly had luck with this?

I've previously looked at a few sites online describing the process, but frankly it makes me too nervous to try it. 

I recall you saying that you diluted the glue with water before applying it.  what kind of glue did you use, and can you give me any further insight into this?

I have had some tremendous luck.  No need to be nervous.  Just don't get any glue on the label.  Titebond II is the glue to use. Wood glue doesn't stick to vinyl very well, but it does adhere to dust and grim very well.

I don't dilute glue.  This guy does it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gyvipBs6Vs

[Biscuit Gravy]

I'm pretty sure that's the video that I watched.  I've been so tempted to try it, but after the lil' lady put my Bauhaus 12"s in the oven, during a kindhearted, yet ill-fated attempt to take the warp out, I've been of a mind to let them be.

I guess I'll experiment on a $1 thrift store record first.  Thanks for the confidence!

[fonpr]

I guess I'll experiment on a $1 thrift store record first. 

You are wasting time. Roxy is waiting.

[Biscuit Gravy]

yes...b-b-but my burgeoning Jim Nabors collection....

ok. you're right.  I'll stop being such a chicken, even if it is a first pressing of their debut album... I want Bitters End not to sound as if it's playing through a Victrola. 

if there's one thing The Best Show taught me, it's to just DO IT.

[Biscuit Gravy]

the lil' lady put my Bauhaus 12"s in the oven, during a kindhearted, yet ill-fated attempt to take the warp out

it's been a busy week, and I'm just now getting to last week's podcast, but are you attempting to do this?

I believe the same youtube channel that led my wife to the glue-guy (which I am, as of yet, too frightened to begin attempts at) inspired her to try this...

granted, she did this out of kindness, because she knows how much the warped records meant to me (you know, prior to loaning them to a good, yet dimwitted friend who "didn't know" that leaving records in the back f-ing window of your car would utterly distort and destroy them). 

once exposed to her Frankensteinesque (Frankensteinian?) experiments, all of these records lived a new life as FRUIT BOWLS.

please tell me that you've had greater success with raising the dead... I want to believe.

[fonpr]

No luck yet. I have not tried the oven yet.

[Biscuit Gravy]

that's...one hell of a warp.  if you're anything like me, I reckon you still try to play it, hoping that somehow, magically, the needle will make the jump perfectly, like the Dukes of Hazard on wax.

ps: don't EVER try the oven.  unless, of course, you like 4AD fruit bowls.

[ole_swerdlow]

I've done the glue thing a bunch of times.  Always has great results. 

[fonpr]

Say it!