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Topic: Cleaning a flaking acetate - advisable?

  7th Dec 2021, 5:13 AM
fantasista

Member since Feb 2015
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I recently bought a 78rpm acetate - thankfully at a negligible price - of which most of the surface is flaking away (in some areas totally delaminated), excepting the area of the recording itself, which is basically intact for now. I want to try to do a digital transfer of it as soon as possible, lest it deteriorate further, but the surface is visibly quite dusty. It's a Pyral acetate, with a flexible metal core.

Does anyone have experience dealing with damaged acetates? My normal method is to clean with a damp microfibre cloth, but I don't want to risk peeling off the recording in the process.

Edited by fantasista on 9th Dec 2021, 1:49 AM

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