Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site teklabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekchips!teklabs!edr From: edr@teklabs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.audio,net.records Subject: Re: albums damaged in flood Message-ID: <2172@teklabs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 14:28:35 EDT Article-I.D.: teklabs.2172 Posted: Fri Jul 8 14:28:35 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jul-83 13:20:09 EDT References: <1763@ihldt.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 28 When my family moved to Nigeria in '65 for two years, we had a similar problem. Apparently, there was a fire on the ship carrying our sea freight, which included the stereo and all our record albums. The captain flooded the hold with sea water to extingush the fire, and when we recieved it, there was a distinct water line across the middle of the (large) crate. We set about the task of repairing the water damage. Fortunately, the stereo was packed on the top of the crate and was unharmed, but the records were near the bottom and we peeled off the covers, made new blank covers, washed off the records with soap and water (we didn't have access to comercial blank covers or Discwasher[TM] in the middle of the back bush country of eastern Nigeria), modified the turntable spindle to run on 50 Hz and found the records to be in excellent condition. All we had effectively lost was the informative value of the album covers. I suspect that your friend may have damaged the records while cleaning them, perhaps with an abrasive cloth. If another good cleaning doesn't fix it, he may be out of luck. Then I would suggest he take the insurance loss and replace them. I know that's alot of albums to replace, but remind him that material possessions are secondary in the cosmic spiritual matrix of time-space, and only of fleeting interest in the eternal plan of the Divine Universe. I'm sure he'll be consoled. As a post script, we finally lost all of our things in the Biafran civil war in '67, sad irony. But it was still nice to enjoy the music while we were there. Ed Reuss teklabs!edr