Early morning update regarding Orb flattening.
Last night before going to bed, I took a chance and baked a replaceable color vinyl 12" in the Orb as a test.
The subject:
Ben Watt (with Robert Wyatt) "Summer Into Winter" Cherry Red UK rerelease for 2020 RSD.
When I received the record and opened it, someone at the pressing plant in the EU (not specific which plant) must have been having a bad day. A-side label was off center and torn at the center hole plus the record itself looks as though it was pulled off the stamper rather violently, probably due to the label being caught on the center hole mandrel in the press. There were 3 distinct ripples radiating outward from the center hole.
I didn't open the record for a while after receiving thus a return wasn't possible.
So, I set it aside thinking someday I've have the means to flatten it.
I placed the badly warped 12" clear blue vinyl record in the Orb at "normal" temp/time (2 hours heat, 2 hour cool).
I feared the worst this morning. However, much to my surprise and delight, the record came out with nearly all the wrinkles flattened. The record plays fine on the turntable.
