Where to find new 12" sleeves and 10" binders?

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Johnny Town Mouse
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Where to find new 12" sleeves and 10" binders?

Post by Johnny Town Mouse »

Forgive me if these questions have been answered elsewhere on here and feel free to point me in the right direction ;) however I haven't really been able to find answers to these...

First, how do you recommend storing 12" shellac discs? And conversely, can you buy paper or archival sleeves and boxes for them?

Second, does anyone make modern or new paper or archival binders for regular 10" 78s that are like the old paper ones but newly made? i.e. not new old stock but made new today.

Thanks in advanced for the help :) Cheers!

VanEpsFan1914
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Re: Where to find new 12" sleeves and 10" binders?

Post by VanEpsFan1914 »

These are the gold standard for paper sleeves.

I am afraid there are no new 10" albums on the market at a reasonable price. I did find Mingo Audio Visual on Etsy selling binders but at over $100USD each--you can buy a used upright VV-X for that which will store a hundred discs & play them too.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1236381516 ... lack?gQT=1
https://78rpm.com/products/disc-o-file-record-sleeves

Lah Ca
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Re: Where to find new 12" sleeves and 10" binders?

Post by Lah Ca »

+1 on the Disc-o-file sleeves. Well made and very durable, more like light cardboard than paper. But perhaps not archival acid free grade.

I bought a large box of 500 acid free 10" white paper sleeves from Bags Unlimited within recent years. They were nice and not outrageously priced but not very heavy. If you keep your records stored tightly, you need to be very careful to avoid crushing/crumpling the corners of the sleeves.

Temu has quite a number of different sleeves available in 7", 10", and 12" sizes, a variety of form factors, materials (paper grades) and colours, some claim to be acid free. None are entirely cheap, however.

The acid free paper is only important to protect the records from the dust produced as the acid and lignin in the paper work to fox and degrade the paper, eventually causing it to self destruct. I do not believe the acidity of the paper poses any direct/immediate threat to records. But hey ... I have known to be wrong on numerous occasions.

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