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From: wm@tekchips.UUCP (Wm Leler)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Flattening warped records
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Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 14:26:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 13 14:26:36 1984
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I have often heard that the stylus at normal tracking exerts
a pressure of greater than nine tons per square inch on
the groove walls.  This sounds reasonable given the small
size of the stylus and the velocities at which it is being
moved.  Given this, along with since records are wider
at the edges and middle than at the grooves (so that changers
don't instantly destroy the record), I can't imagine how
heating it up between glass to remove a warp could possibly
hurt the music.

Besides, would you rather throw the album away?

wm