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From: edr@teklabs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: albums damaged in flood
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Date: Fri, 8-Jul-83 14:28:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  8 14:28:35 1983
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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