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12th Jan 2015, 4:17 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3747 Points Moderator	Actually, this, and something else posted in the 45cat forum showing a home vinyl disc cutter, are both very close in principle to an idea I had for a device that I'm sure many would find very helpful: It makes me sick when I get a record that looks great, or one that is very rare but battered and doesn't play properly... to think that they may end up as a flower pot, clock or coaster is very sad. And I don't understand how nobody has yet come up with a satisfactory method of vinyl repair..."A Scratch is a Scratch, and nothing can be done about it" is up there with: "A record is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it" as being one of the most oft repeated and unsatisfactory remarks around. After all, a record is only plastic, which can be locally heated, at site of scratch, repaired, and then cooled to set surely? As most scratches only traverse the width of a hair across a particular groove, you don't need to reform the whole thing... but those cases where more is required, it would seem to me that all you would need is a clean playing copy of your damaged disc with a matching matrix and stamp set (To insure the most approximate match in vinyl thickness and consistency, groove depth and other relevant dimensions to match the sound, then, similar to this, use the clean copy to guide a stylus on the damaged disc... that one having a hot stylus running ahead of the required repair, a forming stylus, then a cooling stylus or shoe to set... you only need to move the disc a little to make a repair. As a Seismograph transfers the vibrations from the earth through a needle to make a mark on paper, this would use the vibrations of the clean disc to move a needle to reform a scratch on a damaged disc. ...Now, if only I had the technical skill to make this... Anyone got the wherewithall? (You can fix my unplayable copy of Rubber Soul if you do!)