The Hearbreak of Cracked Records?

[Lah Ca]

Another noob question.

What to do about cracked discs?

I put a lovely Beniamano Gigli recording on the platter of my A-V, and while I was installing a soft needle, there was a crack noise. The record spontaneously cracked - perhaps because of a change in temperature? Who knows?

I have a small number of irreplaceable cracked discs squirrelled away as some future project.

Turning to Youtube for repair options, I find as many different options as there are opinions about needles and polishes/lubricants.

Does anyone have any tips they would care to offer?

Thanks.

[gramophone78]

As a new forum member, you may find using our "search" feature to help with some of your "noob' questions. You will find some wonderful threads pertaining to record repair and many, many other valuable topics.
I hope this helps.

[Lah Ca]

As a new forum member, you may find using our "search" feature to help with some of your "noob' questions. You will find some wonderful threads pertaining to record repair and many, many other valuable topics.
I hope this helps.

Thanks.

Found this:

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8860&hilit=broken+record

[JeffR1]

Another noob question.

What to do about cracked discs?

I put a lovely Beniamano Gigli recording on the platter of my A-V, and while I was installing a soft needle, there was a crack noise. The record spontaneously cracked - perhaps because of a change in temperature? Who knows?

I have a small number of irreplaceable cracked discs squirrelled away as some future project.

Turning to Youtube for repair options, I find as many different options as there are opinions about needles and polishes/lubricants.

Does anyone have any tips they would care to offer?

Thanks.

Once is repaired, have a look at this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAIwPpRlO8

https://www.facebook.com/donwilsonrecords/

[Lah Ca]

Once is repaired, have a look at this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgAIwPpRlO8

https://www.facebook.com/donwilsonrecords/

Thanks. Very interesting. Impressive ingenuity.

[Inigo]

I don't understand... We talking about repairing broken 78s, but the video links to Don Wilson reproduced records....???

[Lah Ca]

I don't understand... We talking about repairing broken 78s, but the video links to Don Wilson reproduced records....???

I didn't understand either at first, but after thinking about it for a bit, I suspect that the poster was suggesting that if you have a rare to the point of being irreplaceable repaired disk, you might wish to have a copy made of it for posterity. Maybe I still don't understand -- the links were cool anyway.

[JeffR1]

What's not to understand, if a record has a break in it, it may well be on it's way out even if it's repaired.
If one is lucky enough to repair it, making a copy of it may be a good idea to preserve the recording.

The other alternative is to try and find another original copy _ no easy task.

[Inigo]

Aaahhh., Thanks. That's a good option! He's duplicating many rare records, his yt site is very interesting... What a master!

[Hoodoo]

Well, I tried Curt A’s crack repair method using Weldbond, and not only did it work on cracked records, I also managed to put back together records that had pieces broken completely off.