Slightly Warped Vinyl

If you have a warped record give method 1 a try before you embark on an unnecessary and possibly dangerous quest.

Slightly warped vinyl.

You have reminded me of when i bought a queen 12 of one vision red vinyl and it was warped. Whatever you decide to do keep in mind that a slightly warped vinyl record still plays better than one that you accidentally overheated in your supposedly food inside only oven. First place the record between 2 sheets of glass and heat it in the oven at 175 degrees fahrenheit for 3 minutes. I took it back and the replacement we checked in the shop was also warped.

Place some weight onto it approximately 1 kg. I have recently purchased a slightly warped vinyl record. It tracks the groove fine and doesn t skip or bounce or anything and sounds great. So i ended up with a normal one.

If you check the prices now the red vinyl one is worth. But it s slightly bugging me that the record is slightly warped if only for aesthetic reasons. Even only a couple hundred miles away sometimes i would receive slightly warped records from classic records. Then wait for about 10 minutes.

For the extremely unreasonable costs of vinyl records these days i would accept no warp whatsoever. Whichever way you decide to go just remember that a slightly warped record that plays is better than one that looks like a salad bowl because you accidentally overheated it in your oven. The best way to fix a warped record is to take 2 pieces of thick glass turn on your oven to 150 degrees fahrenheit place one piece of glass into the oven then your vinyl record onto it and then the second piece of glass on top of the record. There is a phenomenon called vinyl memory that the audio writers in the 70s and 80s used to write about in the context of warped vinyl.

After sending several back cr automatically checked and flattened records before they sent them to me at no extra charge. Then take the glass and record out of the oven and place a heavy object on top of the glass until everything is fully cooled. How to fix a warped record. The basis of this if i recall correctly is that a warped vinyl disc will always try to resist efforts to change its shape so essentially you are fighting the record s vinyl memory.

We highly recommend you try the 1 st method to fix warped record before going on an unnecessarily dangerous and risky adventure.