[BC] Outrageous repair techniques

[Richard Rudman]

Hi, Randy -

Your posting about unwinding grooves on a 78 is a riot! Certainly deserves its own off topic subject line.

I did once try something similar with a skipping CD, but the beam from my atomic microscope blew the track off my workbench. I was picking up photons for a week!

Yours is by far the funniest post I have seen on this list in some time. 

Certainly tops any stories I have heard (or tried) about repairs to defective electrolytic caps, phono pickups and 8 tracks by unwinding them. 

I do have a way to put toothpaste back in the tube I have always wanted to try, but that would be off topic.

Richard

On Nov 21, 2010, at 9:30 AM, RadioRan at aol.com wrote:

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> Hey Tom and Richard,
>    Splicing pieces of tape and spools of recording wire was child's play.  Back in the day, when a 78 RPM record developed a skip or a repeating groove, we had to un-wind the groove, store it carefully so it wouldn't break, make the necessary repair and carefully wind it back on to the disk. 
>    You always hoped it was closer to the beginning of the record, because getting the eccentric grove at the end of the record back in the right place ...