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From: marcus@pyuxt.UUCP (M. G. Hand)
Newsgroups: net.audio,net.records
Subject: Re: Unwarping a warped record
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 23:57:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 23:57:12 1984
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The problem is that the vinyl problem is essentialy a super cooled
liked - there is little order to the material, because it was pressed
and chilled.  When it is heated, the molecular chains begin to slide
across one another and gradually arrange them selves in less energetic
positions (ie the material tends to equilibrate).  This means that the warping
is the obvious manifestation of what is going on at a sub-microscopic
scale - the shapes of the groove walls has also deformed. Unfortuantely
you'll never be able to restore your disk to its former glory even if you
actually mangae to flatten it, because the cutting has been degraded.

		marcus hand (pyuxt!marcus)