Warped Vinyls!

You shouldnt try this, because you prob just ruin it, but anyway!

Quoted from a text I found:

“All you need to two pieces of thick glass and an oven. set the over to the lowest temp, usually about 250. place the warped vinyl between the pieces of glass. when the oven is heated, place the glass and vinyl in the oven for about 5 minutes. after the 5 minutes is up *very carefully* remove the glass and vinyl from the oven. remove it all together still sandwiched. do not under any circumstances lift the top piece of the glass off and absolutely do not slide the pieces of glass at all. even a little lateral movement will destroy the vinyl as it’s still hot and soft. let the glass and vinyl completely cool to room temp before remove the top piece of glass. i would say let it sit at least 20 minutes but it must be room temp. then you can remove the vinyl and it shouldn’t be warped. if it is then do the whole procedure over again adding a couple of minutes each time you have to repeat until the vinyl is no longer warped. some vinyl is thicker then others so it will take longer in the oven. i’ve had pieces in the over for 10 minutes before to un-warp them. if you try this be ultra careful.”

Or…. maybe just SIT on it for a day or 2?

Yeah, that prob will help!

I did the same with a warped record I had. Just put it in the bottom of a stack of vinyl, and a filled crate on top. Worked out pretty good!

playmaker wrote:

All you need to two pieces of thick glass and an oven.

Good idea with the glass, bad idea for the oven. Take the glass and set it in the sun for about 5 minutes to get it WARM but NOT HOT. Place this vinyl-glass sammich under a heavy speaker or something with a nice flat base that weighs a lot. It’s fixed some of the most rediculously warped records I’ve ever seen for me.

-R

this happened to me about 14 years ago. the sad part is that they were my friends vinyl. nice ones too. old school techno. i played a friends wedding reception which was outdoors at a house. i played some, drank some, played some more, drank some more, drank some more, played some more… you get the picture. after people started to leave i gathered up my gear and instead of leaving it alone in a house that i didnt know who lived there, i decided to put everything in my car. just one problem. this was summertime and the reception was in the late morning/early day. it was probably in the high 90’s. i was drunk. didnt realize the horrible thing i was doing. so there they sat in my car, melting away. where’s was i? passed out on the couch.

*hangs head low in shame*

my remedy, put out a bed sheet on the back lawn in the hot sun. spread out the 20 some records. grabbed a beer and waited. about 20 minutes passed and they started feeling soft. then i just started flippin em like hamburgers. another 20 minutes passed and i brought them back into the house and stacked em up and put them underneath one of my cerwin vega earthquakes. left em there till the next day and low and behold they were flat again. i did notice a slight decrease in sound quality. but then again these were old school techno jams so it kinda fit. also i couldnt believe my friend forgave me. it was no big deal to him. man what a friend. thanks ryan!

msg

Definately 250 degrees Farenheit – which is still too hot for vinyl. If you’ve ever left a record on the package shelf of your car on a sunny day, you’ll know it doesn’t take much more than prolonged exposure to 90-110 degree farenheit temps to really soften a disc, which is about as much as you want to do when flattening it. 250 degrees farenheit would melt the grooves right off your track. The glass plates would flatten the ridges very quickly, as glass conducts heat much better than air. Remember from high-school chemistry: hot glass looks like cold glass

My recommendation: If you have a big window or a sunroom, put it between plates of glass in direct sunlight for about an hour…or if you have easy access, your roof is good too because of the (usually) black surface trapping heat with a flat surface for you. You should only do the latter for about half an hour, as again, it heats up much more quickly.