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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 15 2013 at 00:12
You must store your records with the sleeves upside down and outside your discs otherwise you are totally ruing the sleeves. Tongue

And BTW do not ever attempt to play your LPs.  The needle gouges out bits of the record every time you play the thing...


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 15 2013 at 00:13
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Points: 17487 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2013 at 12:53
Originally posted by The Mystical The Mystical wrote:

I am a vinyl collector, and recently I have taken to storing my vinyls with the opening of the plastic protective sleeves facing upward. Is this wrong?
 
In my collection, the albums that survived the best and cleanest? I had gotten the heavy duty plastic cover for them, mostly for double albums as they had a tendency to fall apart. And yeah, they are the ones that are not getting yellow and older looking and starting to smell of old cardboard and paper!
 
This is the part that is sad about my mom's house in Santa Barbara with 2k LP's of classical music (over 100 operas) and the covers are all getting really old and falling apart and some of those LP's were gotten in Brazil and such so we're talking 50 plus years!
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Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:

starting to smell of old cardboard and paper!

I have some rippers which have that musty, old smell (a few which come to mind are my copies (originals) of Jefferson Airplane's 'Bless Its Pointed Little Head', Grateful Dead's 'Live Dead' and Wishbone Ash 'Live Dates').   
Oh, I recall when I bought my Caravan S/T (MGM issue, with a car towing a caravan - which incidentally, together they look like a bus) - it smelt of mothballs (naphthalene) for years.

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I dont use plastic sleeves outside the album covers but it is important that the vinyl is kept in a poly-lined inner or similar. Card inners are the worst - will leave hairline scratches every time you use a record. 

Plastic sleeves are probably great if you can be bothered - i just found them clumsy to use and i couldnt read edge labels etc. 

A key thing is the way the albums are stored - not too many in a row to create weight.


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Only time i use a plastic outer sleeve is if the LP has a cut-out/weird artsy type cover that might get damaged while placing or pulling it out of storage. Ring wear is more often caused by storing your LPs much tightly together. If you can't easily put your index finger between your LPs in storage, you are doing it wrong. Please treat your LPs with more respect and care!! Thank you in advance.....

Edited by libertycaps - March 15 2014 at 00:29
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