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Topic: Cleaning a flaking acetate - advisable?

  9th Dec 2021, 2:34 AM
fantasista

Member since Feb 2015
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Well... as for "results," I can only use the term loosely. It was an inside-out recording, containing a translation into German of Mussolini's declaration of war of June 10, 1940, and two other pieces of radio dialogue on the opposite side. I was able to play through the A-side recording once, although unfortunately the last eighth of an inch or so was simply gone before I started. The B-side (as the pictures show) was in much worse shape, as an amateur with a consumer turntable I'm not sure I can get any more than the snippets in-between the bare metal I managed to record.

Photos of the disc

Audio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Because it's a radio acetate, and what it contains, I assume it's not a unique record, so it's a consolation to think someone out there may have one that's intact. And now I have to do a little begging: if one of our users who speaks German natively could tell me what's being said in the last 4 links (assuming you can make it out), I would appreciate it.

Edited by fantasista on 9th Dec 2021, 2:41 AM

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