Inexpensive Record Flattening Machine

[krellmk]

https://recordpi.com/

 

[Bob Boyer]

Interesting... my latest record-flattening machine is the hi-res digital download of the album in question but for the true believers, this could be quite a help.

 

[Bradrock]

Nice! I just opened an LP like that tonight. I'm trying an even cheaper method. I've got the fire stoked & the living room is 93 degrees right now. I'm hoping if I keep playing the record & get it a bit warmer, that it might lay down.

 

[Wheel-right]

Maybe one of the pizza delivery warming bags might work? Probably cheaper too. Unfortunately, when vinyl warps it stretches and will not go back to being what it once was.

 

[WOPL Sniffer]

I bought a new album a couple months ago and it had a tater chip bend in it but I put it between two heavy books and let it rest for a week. Couldn't tell it ever had a warp to it.

 

[nakdoc]

My friendly record store has an expensive machine using this technology. You absolutely must keep the temperature as low as possible. The big issue is a cycle takes about 4 hours. His expensive machine can do 2 records at once with rice paper between them. Both top and bottom are heated in his machine.

 

[overmodulated]

Looks cool, and I know a lot of people like to heat the records up, some people between two panes of glass in the sun. Myself I would never reheat a record, and I would think that not only with a flatt n the records, but may do something to the grooves.

As an alternative, I sprung for the periphery ring, and it was hundreds of dollars for the universal one but I figured I'd only have to buy it once. Works like a charm because I was getting sick of sending back new LPs. You would think after all these years that they would be able to make a record that isn't warped upon purchase, but that's definitely something they did better back in the day. Probably all the recycled vinyl material.