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I'd like a way of indicating my records have been cleaned. I don't want to put any type of permanent mark inside the cover. I've looked at small "dot stickers" in stationary stores, but they all say "permanent" on them.What I'd really like is something removable, like a 3M "Post-it" type dot, about the diameter of a pencil eraser. So far no luck.
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I got some excellent advice, a few "why didn't I think of that?" ideas, and found just what I was looking for: "Avery 05795 color coding labels". Little removable dots the diameter of a pencil eraser. Perfect!For those of you who missed my reply to one of the postings, there's a reason the inner sleeve change wouldn't serve to ID a clean record for me. I started using Mo-Fi and other poly sleeves on my new LP's more than twenty years ago, back when I was using nothing more than a DiscWasher to clean my records. Now I've got a vacuum machine, Orbitrac and a few of the Vinyl Asylum recommended potions. I'm ready to REALLY clean.
Now when I pull out an album in a rice paper sleeve I won't have to wonder. Thanks again!
i have separate, to be cleaned pile. once clean, they get a new mofi innersleeve and plastic outer sleeve and go into the regular stacks. no confusion.
before I put them on the Turntable. Better for the Needle.
and I believe they would serve your purpose well. They are round dots and only lightly sticky. They never leave any residue on my plastic reels and should leave non on cardboard LP covers. They come in a package of 1000, stock code is Avery 05464.
"Music is love"
Teresa
Thanks for the idea, Teresa. I wasn't able to find the stock number you mentioned, but an Avery search did turn up just what I needed:Avery 05795, 768 teeny removable dots!
nt
Dito
HI,
Unless you enjoy wasting your MF sleeves this doesn't work for classical recordings because many of them come with perfectly good plastic sleeves from the factory.
until they are cleaned, then they move to the cleaned/played pile.no way do I play a record w/o cleaning it first.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Once a bunch are in the cleaned/played pile..... they are filed in their respective category.....
Even classical that comes in poly, I replace because I always find some kind of dust in tne old sleeves.
Nt
and now the spreadsheet has everything on it. All formats and the date cleaned and listened to, with a grade of my thoughts of condition.
date, method, brief note sometimes.
...regards...tr
HI,
Taking off on your "Post It" idea why couldn't you actually use Post It notes and use a simple hole punch to create a dot out of the adhesive part of the note? Personally, I don't think that adhesive is strong enough but it might work.With my collection I don't mark "Washed". Rather I wash on my VPI 17 RCM before the initial play, then I audition it, and if I keep the record I then apply Last record preservative. I then mark the record with the little Last labels that are provided with the preservative.
If I see a Last label it is a safe bet the record is washed. If I don't see a Last label, such as for long time residents of the collection that I have not played for a while (often years), the record is washed and Last is applied. I never play a record that's lacking the Last label. That's a hard and fast rule with my collection.
Slowly, over time, all my records will be washed and treated with Last. But I still have a long ways to go. I have well over 4000 records and most of them are in pristine condition because I'm an insane nut on the issue of record care.
I clean every LP before the first play and thereafter as needed. But since I use a CF brush before each side is played, I have LPs I cleaned 10-15 years ago that are still clean.
Henry
I only use two kinds of sleeves--brand-new paper sleeves with the label hole and rounded corners, and MFSL-type sleeves for those "special" rekkids.
But I never put 'em in a new sleeve unless they've been cleaned first. So, if the sleeve is new, the rekkid is clean.
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"Multi-Purpose Labels" by Avery, #05408, white, 3/4" round, 1000 to pack, marked "Removable." And they seem to be.
I use them to hold down the end of the tape on my Reel to Reels since they are removable. They have never left any sticky residue on my plastic Reels. I haven't tried them for marking my LPs but I would imagine they should remove easily from LPs as well.
"Music is love"
Teresa
I replace the LP sleeve with one of the better ones after cleaning.
I don't stick anything... I cut up wasted computer paper into quarters, write the date of cleaning and any notes as to where I got it, cost, how it sounds, etc... and slip it under the front of the clear jacket cover... ('92 FXR, last of the evos)
You could do it the way I mark my Mono lps for easy ID.Avery color-code stickers, the dot-sticker you mention from the stationery store, but just stick them on the exterior of the poly outer-sleeve.
Easily removable, instantly recognizable, and doesn't touch the lp cover itself.
Similar here....
Most LP's are in PVC outer jackets... the cleaned ones get a green dot on the outer cover. Anything out of the ordinary, bad noises or great sonics get writen on a post it note as well and the goes in the PVC sleeve so it doesn't get lost.Working well so far...
Perhaps my monica should be 2003Z1000 but I don't think its so easy on the eye.
Now THERE'S a good idea! (slapping my forehead like I could have had a V8)And even if the cover is too beat to bother with a poly outer-sleeve, there's no reason why I couldn't put the sticker on the inner sleeve which always replaces the paper sleeve after cleaning.
If anyone's wondering why the inner sleeve wouldn't be enough of an indication for me, it's because I replaced some of my LP's inners with rice paper sleeves years ago, and some have never been cleaned with anything more than a Discwasher.
Thanks for this simple answer, J.D. That'll work just great!
cleaned LP jackets in a protective sleeve open at the top and put the LP in a separate sleeve within that . This identifies and protects the cleaned ones, makes it easy to pull it off the shelf without the outer sleeve coming off and I know which ones I've cleaned. Norm
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I put the clean LP in a poly-lined paper sleeve behind the jacket, both enclosed by a new poly sleeve cover, leaving the orig paper inner sleeve inside the jacket. LPs that have not been cleaned remain inside the jackets with orig sleeves.
Hi,I have my "collection" catalogued in a series of EXCEL spreadsheets. I have a column labeled for cleaning date. I keep a copy with my records and mark it up as I clean 'em. A little work but cataloging my records was a really worthwhile effort. I no longer have any "lost classics." Also makes it really easy to select LPs for listening sessions.
Anyway, that's what I do. Also -- I mark down RRL because eventually, I intend to re-clean my LPs washed with the DIY stuff. After everything’s had at least one cleaning.
Cheers, Joe
Yeah, but please don't hold that against me. Been riding them since 1975. Currently I've got a '73, which I've owned and ridden since 1977, as well as a 2005 bagger for long trips. Nice catch as far as the moniker goes!Thanks for the advice on the spreadsheet idea. I was thinking of a more direct ID, but it might give me a good excuse to learn Excel.
Ride safe (if you do), and please watch for motorcycles if you don't.
Hey,No problem with Harleys on my end. I've been away from bikes for a long time but still love 'em. I was really into Triumph triples from the seventies. We had a super fast '72 Trident. A real screamer that one. It's head was worked over by Tan Hemmis who built Class A hill climbers just for fun. He and his son Joe won four or five National Championships back in the day.
Hey Joe...Where you goin' with that gun in your hand? (thought I'd better bring this back to music topics before we raise the ire!)I was just kidding about you holding the fact that I ride Harleys against me. Bikes are a lot like hi-fi in as much as there's many ways to enjoy it. Triumphs are great bikes, and I've always loved them. Oh, ok, maybe not their electrics (Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A: Lucas refrigerators!) but everything else about them.
Take care.
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