Gather enough vinyl And you guarantee yourself to find yourself with some perverted albums that will not play properly. Maybe you foolishly leave them directly into the sun, maybe you have not stored them flat, or possibly you found a old old rareness at the cost of a bargain and felt that you can restore it and beat the discogs in your game.
Photograph: Chris Hasalam
This is enough to set a turcut or choose the right player, but fixing a distorted record without special tooling (and related knowledge) is too much for long for pain.
The target is the goal of correcting the Turnateable Stalwarts Pro-Analysis. It has just launched proper for Flatton It, its first dedicated vinyl flatting machine. It is a rugged beautiful lump of aluminum, with two 12 -inch warm plates that heat up and press their precious long players back into shape. Can it save your worst record? In my experience, it does very well.
Finally flat
Photograph: Chris Hasalam
There is nothing in particular here, just a highly precise thermostat offers the ideal heat to fix its shelak. Once heated for about an hour, it will maintain a temperature of 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit (58 Celsius) and will gently exclude any vinyl waring. This will just remove in two degrees from this, and once you leave for two hours, the records can be safely removed up to 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 ° C).
How long you press a record, depending on the thickness of the vinyl. Chunky will take more and more time for 180 grams of pressing more flexible, and taunt, dinaflex records. Before I was flattened, to work on the 90s white label to work on my nutritious-but-cut collection, I needed to test it on some less precious.
