Re: [ARSCLIST] Using desiccant with audio recordings

[Robert Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard !

Now that you mention it, I've encountered  that scenario as well ! Very
true that it doesn't come off either.

BH
 
  

>>> richard.warren@xxxxxxxx 2/15/2007 10:00 AM >>>
Hi,

Experience here suggests that when paper sleeves are found welded to 
the surfaces of shellac discs (or their printed words and images are 
imprinted on disc surfaces), that's the result of moisture and that 
the discs have usually been permanently damaged.

Richard

At 09:15 AM 2/15/2007, you wrote:
>I'd have to go with Steve's conclusion that if moisture got a
foothold
>anywhere in the surface, the freezing would cause it expand and break
>the disc or wax cylinder. Especially if the records were never
touched.
>Unfortunately, I don't believe dessicant would have helped in a
severly
>cold atmosphere as the moisture has to be part of a warm atmospheric
>environment to work.
>
>Bob  Hodge
>
>Robert Hodge,
>Senior Engineer
>Belfer Audio Archive
>Syracuse University
>222 Waverly Ave .
>Syracuse N.Y. 13244-2010
>
>315-443- 7971
>FAX-315-443-4866
>
> >>> thorenstd124@xxxxxxxxx 2/14/2007 9:53 PM >>>
>Hi Bob,
>
><sarcasm>Do tell</sarcasm>.I had a terrible experience a few years
>back,where my 78s were in an unheated room for most of one winter.I
came
>back in the spring,and lost at least a dozen to breakage,and I never
>touched them.Among them,one of the records from my Siemens Von
Karajan
>set,my Ray Charles "Kissa Me Baby",on Swing Time,and my Argentine
Decca
>"El Rocko",by Bill Haley.Do they expand and contract or something ?
>
>
>                                  Roger
>
>Robert Hodge <rjhodge@xxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Barbara,
>
>I have worked with large collections of shellac discs stored in
>unheated
>outbuildings. As long as critters are kept out of them and they
remain
>dry, they never audibly degrade !! At least that's my experience.
>
>Of course, cold shellac or wax is extremely prone to breakage due to
>brittleness !! Double that for wax amberol cylinders !!
>
>The dessicant would be a good idea for wax cylinders.
>But then I wouldn't store wax cylinders or shellac anywhere where I
>myself could not live !!
>
>Bob Hodge
>
>
>
> >>> mrichter@xxxxxxx 2/13/2007 3:17 PM >>>
>Language Archives wrote:
> > I have to pack up my archive for storage in the University library
>while
> > construction happens around my space. I was asked about the need
to
>put
> > (advisability of putting) desiccant in with the recordings. I
don't
>know
> > for certain how long they will be in boxes--we may unpack them for
> > access on the other end, and while they think construction will
end
>in
> > August, who knows!
>
>I suspect that it will be important to know two things: what sort of
>material (cylinders, 78s, lacquers, LPs, ??); what sort of storage
>environment.
>
>Mike
>--
>mrichter@xxxxxxx 
>http://www.mrichter.com/ 
>
>Robert Hodge,
>Senior Engineer
>Belfer Audio Archive
>Syracuse University
>222 Waverly Ave .
>Syracuse N.Y. 13244-2010
>
>315-443- 7971
>FAX-315-443-4866
>
>
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