Unwarping vinyl?

**Bojack** · 14 Dec 2010, 04:58 PM

I picked up a few albums over the past couple weeks for pennies and two of them happen to have odd bumps in the vinyl towards the outter edge (like a divot of sorts) and I was wondering if there was a safe way to "re-flatten" the vinyl w/o trashing the music grooves.

Do any of the TNL Music Elite have any hints on this or am I screwed?

**Josh** · 14 Dec 2010, 05:00 PM

Screwed

**Brisco Bold** · 14 Dec 2010, 05:04 PM

Yeah, screwed. I mean, there's the oven or sun melting techniques, but that's if one whole side of the vinyl is warp. Tiny divots? Yeeesh.

**Doc Holliday** · 14 Dec 2010, 05:31 PM

Use an iron.

**Cowutopia** · 14 Dec 2010, 07:14 PM

now you know why they were pennies.

**Bojack** · 14 Dec 2010, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

Yeah, screwed. I mean, there's the oven or sun melting techniques, but that's if one whole side of the vinyl is warp. Tiny divots? Yeeesh.

Yeah like think of a thumb sized dent alongside the outtermost edge of the record and that's what these two lp's have. Barely affects the playing of the record but it's weird how they got there in the 1st place and I'd like to get rid of them if I could safely do it. Perhaps I'll put a moderately heavy book on top of the vinyl.

**Brisco Bold** · 14 Dec 2010, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by Bojack

Yeah like think of a thumb sized dent alongside the outtermost edge of the record and that's what these two lp's have. Barely affects the playing of the record but it's weird how they got there in the 1st place and I'd like to get rid of them if I could safely do it. Perhaps I'll put a moderately heavy book on top of the vinyl.

That won't work. You'll have to melt the vinyl (but not that much) enough so it'll change shape and you can reform it.