How to fix a warped vinyl record
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- In today's video, I am going to be helping you guys out with your warped vinyl with a quick and easy fix to get them flat and playable once more!
Oven settings: 80 degrees Celsius. 175 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes
Equipment: 2 sheets of glass bigger than the record. (glass chopping boards work well such as these www.ebay.co.uk/...)
Something big and heavy, I used a big off cut of wood but a couple of large books will do just as well.
An oven to heat the record. (Preheat oven to 80 degrees Celsius. 175 degrees Fahrenheit )
Something to clean the Record with.
And Finally, the bent record its self.
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If you love that warm vinyl sound this is the way to go!
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thats called distortion
@@xxEzraBxxx discrimination
@@xxEzraBxxx *Sibilance XD
I did exactly what you told on my very warped Beatles, Revolver lp, and now the record lays perfectly flat on the turntable. It`s a very rare Beatles lp, made in Norway. And i am of course very happy you showed me this easy way to fix it. Thank you very much:-)
Thanks for the positive feedback, I'm glad it helped you out mate :D
Do i use the same method for single (45) record too? Lp`s are much thicker, so i am not sure if i can use the same heath in the oven.
just lower it
How’s the sound?
Seamus McKeon - like Norwegian Wood
My heart dropped when you said to preheat the oven
I've done this with a graphics card before and had a similar reaction 🤣🤣
@@devinsiegmund3228 why the bloody hell did you put a GPU in the oven for!?!?!
@@jimilowe6642 reflows the solder, just like how people used to fix xbox 360 red rings by putting them in the oven wrapped in blankets.
Had an old GTX 8800 that paid two visits to the oven over its lifespan, it certainly prolonged it, got another year out of it.
@@terenceokane I used a heat gun to fix my PS3 launch model. It went as well as you’d expect.
What do you recommend for sauces? Eating the vinyl on it's own looks a bit bland.
Sweet chilli of course :P
Maybe some red hot chili peppers x)
Jaidon Rymer
Good choice! No but good video mate. I still can't bring myself to ever put one of my records in the oven though. :)
Brown Sugar works fine!
Rickie Hilll Where did you get the glass?
glad you played the record so we could hear it to see your ingenious method worked!!!
"Well set the timer to ten minutes" *comes back and there's no grooves 😂
But it looks good
LMFAO, like all of us who end up here because we bought or found a warped record. This comment had me laughing so hard. And completely help me let go of my anger towards my record I’ll never forget this comment. So THANK YOU.
Thats what I wondered, will it not f$#k up the sound
@@bambinofresh1 im glad your so easily amused..ur my kind of person 💛
I've straightened them using solar power. I used two pieces of thicker glass. The top piece supplied the weight. A few minutes were needed. I carefully carried the glass and LP into the house to cool. After a while, I took off the top piece of glass. The previously warped LP was now perfectly flat. It played fine.
Always wanted to try that, I think I'll do it this summer...
I've done that. A bit risky though, they can get too hot quite easily, as I found....
I did the same with a couple 78's that were nearly warped in half!! They almost looked like Pringle's potato chips or tacos!! They're perfectly fine, now!!
I was told of this method by an Audiophile back in the late 1980's. It works, done properly and with patience. Sound is not affected.
Thank for the great video. I don't think the average person realizes the time and energy it takes to create a video, as well as the courage to put yourself on the internet. I was about to call it quits on an otherwise perfect Led Zeppelin ZOSO record; now I can cure it! Cheers, mate.
This nearly worked! The problem I had was that, even though there was only a tiny amount of the record poking out of the chopping board (2mm), that edge went crinkly and the record ended up no good. The rest of the record looked really good. So the answer, for me anyway, is to make sure that the glass completely covers the record, preferably with a bit to spare.
Since writing this I've tried it on 4 more records. They're all now write-offs, so I'd steer clear.
Be specific about what happened, please...
@@soccerojdoj The records began to melt.
@@aoxomoxoa53 Regardless of only the edge of the record being melted, your temp was too hot! No way do you want the vinyl to move to melt. 135-145degree F max
i wouldnt put it in the oven at all, just sit it between two pieces of glass and put a stack of books or something heavy on top and leave it to sit for a few weeks.. always works for me.
Not for me. I did this for a month and it didn't work.
@@mtache12 And i was getting my hopes up for a second until i read your message. Lol : P
Same, but I've used coffee table books and it worked like a charm
I've had a record into between 2 panes of glass under a stack of books for 2 years. I always lift them off every few months to check and it's still as warped as it was on day 1.
What books were you using? Non-fiction or fiction?
I just leave the record in the sleeve, lay on flat surface, and then put a piece of plywood top, and then a heavy weight on top of that about 25 lbs will do, leave for a week in warm area (like in the sun). Presto!
Worked spot on - had a megadeth picture disc - kids leant it next to radiator - warped beyond playing - thought fuck it nowt to loose - plays spot on now
What megadeth album? only megadeth vinyl i have is dystopia.
Totally worked for me. My copy of Joy Division Unknown Pleasures had been given to me by a friend that left it in her car for 4 months. It had a nasty bit of warping right in one spot on the edge. I believe it's 180 gram copy. If you have a cheap thin record then maybe 10 minutes might be too long but for this one it worked perfect. Thanks for sharing.
This will actually work very well if you skip the whole oven ordeal and flatten it with something heavy and leave it for a day or longer depending on how severe it is. I did this on one of my vinyls and it worked perfectly.
Nice, that's what i am doing at the moment. I'll check it in a day or two. Hopefully it's more flat..
@@surfthestreets86 Good luck. Let me know if it works.
@@lipoloren513 I checked on it after a day and it got flatter. I'm going to leave it again for another day and then try to play it. Hopefully it's all good.
@@surfthestreets86 how did it turn out?
That does not work I was extremely disappointed with my pearl jam ten album as it was still warped after 1 hole month of being under something flat and heavy 😔
*Dad come home and sees his records are in the oven*
You know how the rest of this story goes.
I know my comment is late but 80°C could likely start melting the grooves---technique is OK but 60°C would be a lot safer and the time element can always be increased or process repeated to avoid such potential damage.
My oven only goes as low as 175°
I agree and also wouldn't recommend 80°C! But 60°C is not enough, so 70°C seems to be the right choice...
@@ericolens3 they're talking about celsius, not fahrenheit
@@zacharyhall689 70°C is 158°F so he's not wrong, his oven can only go as low as 175°F (79.4°C)
Kinda agree.
You didn't actually play the record once you got the warp out. I suspect throwing it in an oven like that does more damage to the actual grooves.
depending on how bad the record is warped. i can see the tone arm being thrown around at all directions after the warped record runs straight lol
the hell with how it sounds...the man wanted a flat vinyl
@@DavidDeLeon LOL
Yeah that’s why I said this video makes no sense
I've tried this, but when you pick the vinyl up of the turntable after flattening it, it goes right back to its warped state again.
I've done this and melted one record, the times where the record hasn't melted the record remained warped. It seems there's a very fine line between having enough heat to actually make the vinyl pliable and not enough that it just remains the same shape once cooled. Very fine line that's very tricky to find and can be very costly to.
I used some glass shelves from IKEA made for the Kallax, they are heavy and fit a 12 inch record perfectly. I had a 10" record that was badly warped from being left in the car. I put it between the glass and into a 175 degree oven (the lowest my oven can go) for about 10 minutes. I then took it out and put something heavy on top and let it cool for a few hours. It didn't work. I did it again but this time left it in for 45 minutes. After cooling the record still has a *slight* warp, but plays perfectly. No melted grooves, no issues with the stylus tracking. This method works perfectly. Plus, if a record is so warped it doesn't play properly, what do you have to lose?
Potential wear on the stylus, otherwise it's worth a try on an otherwise unplayable record.
You have to be extremely careful. If you leave it too long in heat source, grooves start shrinking, making it useless. Once the vinyl softens, it has to be removed from heat source immediately. I do the same thing with 2 pieces of glass I had tailor made for this purpose, but I use direct sunlight on a hot day. With this method I can monitor it constantly, to check when it's soft, just by removing the top glass sheet. Once it's soft, I put the sheet back on and move it to a cold area
Have been doing similar method for 30 odd years.
Works every Time.
But please folks never put the disc in the oven,NEVER!!
It compromises the groove this the sound.
Put the disc between warm glass & leave for 2hours.Perfect!
Just tried this on an Ozzy record that came from the UK and it was badly warped from manufacturing or shipping across the pond. I did actually what you did and it worked perfectly. Other videos say to leave it in the oven for 1/2 hour but for ten minutes and put
a weight on it for an hour works. I just thought it was funny you got a warped record from US and I got one from UK.
Fantastic thanks just tried this myself and it worked so well. A £30 vinyl LP saved. Was a little worried before but no damage to the vinyl at all. Thanks for a great tip.
this process might work but everyone PLEASE DO NOT PUT YOUR RECORDS IN FOR 10 MINUTES. I left mine in for 5 minutes and it was unplayable, the record grooves were flattened and compromized. I think leaving it in for maybe 3 1/2 or 4 minutes at most might work but 10 minutes is crazy... dont do it!
seems to me your heat was far too high- remember domestic ovens are notoriously badly calibrated. what says 200 on yours might actually be 100 or 475...
do not do it without a thermometer
Haha, what a story Tommy!
You're tearing my records apart, Lisa!
Hi doggy
Many thanks for making this video. I've just tried this with a warped record of my own, which was so warped the needle jumped up and down on the first track of both sides, skipping repeatedly, but now it's flat enough to play through just fine after doing your glass chopping board method. I put a dumbell weight on the top board for an hour after heating as I didn't have a block of wood, which served just fine as a substitute.
Mmm? Maybe should try that technique with the mother-in-outlaw. Might just be able to get the warps out of her! She's an old 78 but still has a lot of groove!
Bahaha!
ok boomer
Very good
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Yeah, I've used this exact method a few times in the past and it does generally work pretty well. Time and temp are critical factors...don't be tempted to raise either otherwise the grooves can breakdown and distort. It happened to me once when I tempted fate a little.
You can do this on a hot, sunny 90
Degree day as well. I try to get the record as clean as possible but never had a problem with dirt getting embedded. I could see how an oven would cause that problem though
People get so butt hurt about the oven.... It was already ruined. He said he had nothing to lose. It was much more unplayable when warped.
Also the argument of record vs. vinyl is pointless. Record/vinyl/LP who cares. Every record store I go to labels the record section as "vinyl section" so people will always say vinyl. Also, it is vinyl ..it is a record.. it is an LP. Really no need to be picky.
You must mean an Album.
I always called them records or LP's for the Long Players and we referred to the Album Charts.
The term Vinyl only started being used to differentiate from CD, but I really do not get too hung up about it.
Interesting point is that the term Album comes from the 78 era when a whole load of disks were presented in an actual album.
The same was tried with 45's, but that idea was soon discarded, as it was easier to use a 33 LP instead.
Could you imagine Prog Rock with tracks over 20 minutes long on a load of 45's?
I saved a $1000 LP using this and works perfect. I bought the limited edition vinyl for only $30 years ago, and it's extremely rare, so I didn't have much to lose.
What is it?
Then some poor sap bought the oven destroyed lp off you no doubt and you didn't disclose how you ruined it
So why didn't you let us see you play the record?
Becuase of a little thing called copy write, I prefer my videos not to have strike downs against them.
Why then, are there thousands, if not millions of videos available for viewing with complete songs playing? I myself have a "record spin party" video up featuring over 100 clips of album tracks no more than 15 seconds per clip. Not one copyright notice. I have another video up with a longer piece of music and no strike, just a notice in my message inbox saying they detected a song. What happens then is they insert an ad or link on the video leading to an official download site.
Jaidon Rymer I think if you just showed a sample it would be fine
Seeing as you have a 1200, you can adjust the pitch and youtubes trackers can't detect the algorithms of the song. You can also adjust the speed to circumvent the tracker as well.
That ain't a 1200. It's an AT LP 120.
Damn...didn't even play it back! I'm calling bullshit!
Yeah, usually flattening a record causes some surface noise. Especially on the lead in groove. But it depends how deep the warp was to begin with.
I listen to this record frequently as it is one of my favorites,
I can assure you that the sound is fine,
I just didn't include because copywrites on youtube are very tentative.
"That Word Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means" -Inigo Montoya
Jaidon Rymer I have over 200 vynals( records) that are sadly warped.😞. But, by comparison to the one you show in this video yours is quite straight. I would love to hear my vynals ( records) again. But, I have put them away & totally forgot about them. Thinking I will never ever be able to play them again. & Most of them are quite rare & a few limited editions. So, i am extremely disheartened at not being able to play any. & If your wondering as to how they got that way don't ask it was not my fault either.
Jaidon is ABSOLUTELY Correct.. I had a video where I had music playing in the background (not even intentionally.. it was just on in the background) and the TH-cam police turned my video into a silent movie....
As far as "HMAPODACA" calling "BS" I did this on a 180 gram that was warped (brand new)
This absolutely worked and I heard no flaws in the sound.
Very nice. I just put any old record on my Sota Star Sapphire TT with vacuum hold down. Every record plays absolutely perfectly flat and the stylus views the record as a 35 pound chunk of vinyl. Hard to beat.
After my Technics SL-5 bit the dust last month I looked at some nice tables. I was impressed by the Sota factory tour vids, but even the cheapest model was quite a bit over my budget. I ended up getting a Rega Planar 2 replacing the Carbon cartridge with an AT VM540ML, and so far I'm very happy with it. I found some old albums my mom had and one is really warped (oompah band from Austria). I might try to flatten it.
Buy yourself a Vinyl Flat and follow the directions exactly. I have had great success with mine.
Me and my Dads 70s R&R albums have a date this weekend. He gave me a great record 'clean' collection but most are warped from sitting around for decades.
Looks like it worked pretty well. I've tried something similar . Placing record on turntable then placing a second platter on top of the record upside down with extra mat in place. Then warming with hair dryer. Seemed to help some, but mixed results. Your system seems better. Will try.
Using heat to remove the warping in the vinyl also melts the grooves in the LP, thus destroying the quality off the recordings.
DO NOT USE THIS METHOD!
im pretty sure this is true to some degree - so if its a valuable record, i would also decline to oven bake it!
I thought the same put it in the sun! Between the two plates of glass. Old School:)
True about excess heat.
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Hey thanks man. This totally worked for me and saved a record I paid $50 for that showed up in the mail thrashed. Cheers!
Its not called a vinyl, its called a record. If you have more than 1. They're called records, not vinyls. This is your lesson for the day. Carry on.🙂🙂🙂
What's wrong with the 'vinyl'
Go easy on me I'm still trying to learn
@@brez1093 Hi there, not attacking you. See the smile faces. Vinyl is what the records are made out of. You don't go and buy a CD in the music store and ask the clerk were are the plastics. Records have been around since the early 1900's. Thee correct term for them is a record. Plural , meaning more than one . Is records, its just a matter of using the correct terminology. Hope this helps you out some. Happy New Year to you young sir. 🙂
That was actually very helpful information and made a lot of sense. Thank You!
And Happy New Years to you too!!!
Interesting video. One mention of caution: It is not a good idea to touch the grooves of a vinyl record, especially not your entire hand. Doing this can transfer oils from your hand (fingers) to the record which will then cause dirt to adhere to the record.
I totally agree, the only reason I handled the record the way I did in this video was because the record get extremely dirty in shipping so i had to give it a deep clean. I usually just hold by edge and spindle. :D
guess what record washers are for.
KingCorny93 Record washers will not remove the embedded imprints of the fingers and hands of some people, no matter how many times the record is washed. Someone with particularly oily skin mishandled a record I own and despite multiple washings in a professional record washer, the hand prints remain. This is why vinyl records must always be handled by the edges without touching either the inner or outer grooves.
He is a DJ not a Hi-Fi freak!
If you are using fan oven set it for 60. Fan ovens are generally 20degC hotter than the setting, this is because the setting is for the main oven only, not the oven plus fan.
Ovens will all be slightly variable so perhaps start at a lower temp and work up to find the sweet spot. Different vinyl thicknesses may respond differently at diff temps. I would experiment with some old shit from a charity shop to find a sweet spot for your records.
I do a similar thing to my warped records, but didn't put them in oven. Instead I put that glass-record sandwich on my terrace in full summer sun for an hour, then brought it back to room and kept it like that for another one hour. After that my record came out fully flattened. No damage to the grooves. I just added an unused LP jacket after making holes of the same diameter as the centre level and put them in that sandwich in this order: Glass -> one side of paper jacket with hole -> record -> other side of paper jacket -> glass, and tightened them with cloth clips on all sides, before putting it in the sun.
Cannot fucking believe you didn’t actually play the record after putting ya through the whole thing, my anxiety is peaking rn 😐
What some are missing is that not all LP's are the same, and so they will not react the same to this heat treatment. Older ones are thicker and made from different plastics.
Be cautious here, especially with an expensive LP.
Honestly most newer LPs are thicker than those from 70s and 80s, though most made now are from recycled plastics.
Also do NOT recreate the steps as seen in this video unless it’s an Adele or TSwift album.
Thank you this video has saved me from throwing out half my albums that were warped in my collection for years until now . Thank you this is very helpful
I'm a young hipster millennial and just came here to be part of the cool Vinyl crowd. Yay old things are fun!
Now back to my 60million songs that fit on a Micro SD the size of my thumb nail.
...and sound like complete shit.
Same shit bro. Order from honkong and i got nothing but a small motocross track instead of vinyl
I'd say 80 degrees C is a bit hot. 65 tops. Also, glass on it's own is likely to squash the grooves. Put the record in a sleeve first and don't put the vinyl in the oven, the hot glass should do the job on it's own. Heat the glass in the oven then take it out and put the vinyl in. Baking your vinyl is likely to end in disaster. I notice you didn't play the record at the end to prove the process had worked. Flat vinyl but did it play?
As little as that record was warped, I could play it on my turntable with no problem. The real problem is if the warped area is short and deep, so that the bottom of the cartridge hits the surface of the record. Sunshine is gentler than an oven.
Attention, the disc is completely destroyed after baking, because the crooked part is bent outwards and the grooves curl. If your disc is playing, release it as it is.
Vinyl has memory in regard to form. Old thick vinyl that has been warped many years is tough to ever again flatten. The later thinner vinyl 70's and the 80's LP's are pretty easy to un-warp. I have gotten the warps successfully out of dozens of those. The oven method is an extreme. Too easy to get vinyl surface heat damage which is not repairable. I just put warped LP's in a tight pack within LP shelving in my attic. One hot summer up there in the southern US. No more warp.
Hey, I know this is a 5 year old comment, just responding in case you get alerted and are able to reply. I have a record my Dad left me when he passed, he was a huge Red Sox fan and has a record of the entire 1975 season that had never been opened or played, he had been saving it as a collectible. But it was stored in our attic in Florida for over 30years. When I finally opened it for the first time to listen with my husband on our record player in LA, after having it shipped from FL, it's extremely warped. I am very hesitant to use the oven and put it in there without being an expert on that method or the correct temperature/length of time. When you say you use the natural heat of the attic to unwarp them, do you mean leave it tightly packed with something on top of it or an entire summer in an attic? As in 2-3 months? Thanks!
@@laurend7312 Hello, still got the TH-cam site. I have some old homemade LP wooden shelving in my attic. The high heat of today would be perfect for curing warped records in my attic. I use to get basically just mildly warped brand new records out of a huge cutout warehouse that I searched. I would put those warped records tightly packed with other records side by side within that attic wooden shelving. Extremely tight! Your husband might be helpful to muscle them into a tightly packed shelf. I always carefully placed the warped record between other records and positioned it all the way into the wooden shelf, then I muscled records into that shelf binding everything as tightly as possible. I then waited for the high heat of a summer of high 90's & hundred degree days piled together. The time period for doing that here is about over for this year. I know little about the climate in LA. Good Luck. I would not go the oven route on a cherished record. A vinyl groove changing heat warp is the end of it. Trash basket material.
Records which were damaged by sunlight will not be playable even if you try this method to flatten it. The grooves suffer damage and the record is basically useless. Warped vinyl which occurred while stored on a shelf is known as compression warpness and can be flattened over time if stacked flat with weight. I am not saying this method is bad. I just think that it may be a bit extreme for those who own very rare and valuable records.
Tell me about it man. I live in the USA and even here I get packages damaged from UPS. They suck. Great video tho 👍👍
I also find that putting record between 2 panes of glass and left outside in sunlight for an hr will also do this , its just a bit safer then the oven .
I tried this method today and it totally broke my record. Unplayable, thanks!
Blame someone for your stupidity? Typical, today's' society. Do you believe everything you see or hear...If so, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sale ya.
I’ve tried everything and if you do this carefully it really works well. Thanks
I flattened a single that was far more warped, in much the same way, it took about 9 months, using gentle weight and no heat. I put it on a shelf `(still in the dust sleeve) , put a glass chopping board on top, and a few large books on top,. As the months passed the record slowly flattened. Eventually it was flat. I worked on the idea that if it gets hot enough in a house for a record to distort, it gets hot enough for it to get flat if it is between flat surfaces with pressure applied.
Probably better slow and no heat than oven method. What if it flattens the grooves or produces more warps?
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Yes x Bloody good idea x
That's the way we used to do it 😊
Nice you got it flat. I LOVE looking at records. So…you skip most crucial part. YOU DIDNT PLAY IT. how did it sound. That’s what I waited for. You know the glass will have flattened the grooves.
Can I just microwave it for 1 minute @ 800W?
Good explanation that mate, cheers. Got a load of records sent out from the UK to Australia this week and they were completely fucked. Discog seller has been a nightmare to deal with so tried this and they worked a treat. Paid a bit of money for them so only went to 50 degrees centigrade to be safe and it worked well. Defo clean the records first like.
Ovens are not a good idea when it comes to records. Keep the LP in its sleeve (this makes the contact softer so as not to harm the ridges of the tracks). Then put it between to flat glass pains not to light but not to heavy, laminated sheets are good, around 0.5cm thick (avoid big blocks of wood!). Place in airing cupboard for 10 minutes (Can take a bit longer depending on the thickness of the record) (again not in an oven). Take it out and leave to get back to room temp. And then store your LPs vertically as always. We did this a lot in the 70s & 80s and it works a treat and no damage to your records.
What is an airing cupboard ?
@@seeburg220 I was thinking the same thing
@@seeburg220 Yeah what the heck?
Great! I'm going to try this method with a Def Leppard single 45 record, you have earned a Like and my subscription! Thanks for sharing!
Wish Id seen this 30 years ago! I have tried in the past with hot water but didnt really work, the glass sandwich idea is a good one!
Anyone remember Shrinky dinks? Watch him pull out the record and it's the size of a 45 rpm record. Lol.
Good job man. I tried it once in my microwave and the grooves split into other grooves and the songs became impossible to sing along with, and forget Karoke. maybe only 30 minutes in the microwave next try. I guess you could say they were re-mastered.
Anyone who would put records into a microwave deserves what they get! JMHO
That's brave!
Is it the same temp and time frame for a black record, that may absorb more heat? From other posts, it looks like your scheme works on all records.
Good job!
Where were videos like this in the 80’s lol I lost 2 my favourite records as a child due to it being left in the trunk of a hot car in the summer time.
Jaidon, thank you for your video. However a person chooses to do this, you have shown us that warped vinyl records CAN be repaired. As for the 69+ people who are blessed with enough time to criticize and debate whether the aforementioned 12-inch disc should be called a VINYL or a RECORD, I encourage all of you to 1) make your own TH-cam video, and 2) spend your time serving at a soup kitchen. When you reach the end of your life, are you really going to be glad you took the time to inform Jaidon Rymer what a "record" is called? If so, I encourage you to find a copy of "ET" the Atari 2600 game and check your local listings for Jerry Springer reruns.
I use a record cleaner that vacumes the grooves out. I use 8, 2 inch binder clips around the glass. All pvc formulations are different so the correct time and heat is very hard to get. And letting it cool slowly and completely I believe helps. I've had about 60 to 70% success. Some have gotten flat and still played and sounded great, but some developed some minor pops n ticks. May have been dirt but under micro. looks like very, very, slight vinyl damage. If unplayable to start, nothing to lose, otherwise tough choice. Me being a reformed perfectionist it's tougher.
It will flatten without heat if you leave the weight on it long enough.
Nope. I've had one pressed between glass with a full record crate on top for over 2 years, record's still warped. Stick it in the oven between glass for 2 minutes at 70 degrees, ta-da, record is flat again.
Hola amigo
A qué temperatura y durante que tiempo se le deja al disco de vinilo en el horno?
Put it between 2 sheets of glass and hair dyer it over the glass!
I'm really fucking surprised but it worked perfect, the heat is the key.
Saved my greta van fleet album that came looking like a shallow fruit bowl , nice one
What's the conversion of 80 degrees to American? And how long is 10 minutes? European stuff is confusing.
I'll take a combination vinyl pizza please.. Ha Ha Ha!!
extra cheese for phatter sound! :D
Hello,
I tried flattening several records using the method shown in your video. Step by step, and from time to time, I tried, carefully and gradually to slightly raise the heat temperature to try and flex the record, but unfortunately there was no change and the record remained warped.
I use two pieces of 10 ml glass, which compared to most of the videos I see online, is relatively thick. I chose this thickness for fear that the glass would shatter.
Could you advise please?
Thanks.
Thanks mate - might give it a try - can't lose as the warped records are mostly unplayable with the warp anyway.Might start with a shorter "cooking" time" as suggested below - say 3-4mins, the work up if that doesn't do the trick.
Did you mean 80 degrees Farenheight? I now have something resembling a very worn, black disc brake rotor.
Hi there, nice video. I am missing couple of info: what’s the temperature of the record, weight of it, the temperature of the oven (C/F), unfortunately we haven’t been able to hear the sound before and after… all good! Toni
Dude totally wrong method! You hear the glass up only and then remove them and place the vinyl between the glass outside of the over. Then let it cool for an hour. You never ever put it the vinyl in the oven!!!
I think that is a smart idea. The warped records that I have are the kind that have that kinda intense isolated warp at the beginning of the disc, prob like 3 to 4 inches long. The stylus is basically launched when played. Not sure any of these methods can fix that. Shoot the grooves are even straight anymore.
Have you tried with heat gun? Have you tried with glasses big enough to cover all the record's surface?
Did u ever metion what temp the oven should be at@ i actually need to do this!!
You sir are the dog's bollocks.. great video. I just bought a warped record and will try this. I only paid $4.99 for so it's not a big deal
I had a perfect never played 1974 Dick Clark album that warped over the years. I bent it with little force and broke it. I wish I saw you video first. Now I know.
You could just use a hair drying on full heat and wave it over it for the same results and less scary.
This may work, but an oven gives you a very even distribution of heat making sure the whole record is at the same temperature at all times, A hair dryer is liable to cause hot spots which could lead to further deformation
No dont do that it will probably curl up!
I heard from the method to save the recording by using a infrared heat light, directing this on the record till it's flat, playing this onto the computer - the last time
I left a bunch of records stacked next to a radiator and a load are badly warped. I will give this a go with the least fav first, so if it fucks up, i wont be too bothered.
Okay. But how does it sound? Does it flatted the grooves in the record?
Probably shouldn't wipe the dust off the record or spray the record directly above the glass plates you just cleaned.
remarkable. We have warped ones. I will try this. Many thanks
I used hair dryer to fix and recorder works perfectly
Shomi do a video? Please!
Presuming 80 degrees is Celsius.That's 175 Fahrenheit.
this is amazing i think i heard deposche mode sound of silence on one that was warped that bad it scared the f out of me thats how i learned about what the song ment i was like 5
Carefully stack about 50 same size records on top of the warped record leave it for a couple of days hey presto looks like new!!
I'm about to try this after the delivery "person"(?) actually posted my "new" K.D. Lang album through the letterbox.... I kid you not!
bert smith That must've been some warp. Maybe the above may help now?
I hope you had them in sleeves!
Well, just to let you know that the aforementioned album is now playable.
Unless it's over 50 degrees Celsius where you live there's no way that will work in a couple of days. I've had an album pressed between glass underneath a full record crate (about 90 albums) for over a year and it still isn't flat. And I live in a pretty hot part of Australia.
You have to apply some warmth to soften the vinyl a bit in order for it to flatten successfully. It has to reach about 70 degrees C before it becomes pliable. Just having it under a stack of other records won't be enough.
I just placed mine in the middle of a stack of records of 100 or so at about 60 degree angle on end and left it alone for a few months.
It was set in the middle of the stack to keep it more stable.
Great job my Boy, you solve my problem! (But i have around 30 record to straighten!)
Around 3:58 for a moment you can actually hear the record playing inside the oven