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Flattening a warped LP

Do any of the Goners know of an audio club or audio dealer that owns one of the LP "dewarping" machines and will flatten an LP at a reasonable cost? Thanks in advance. Ed
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sonofjim
557 posts
 
Well, I don't know about glass but the pizza stone trick definitely does not work at all. They probably store too much heat. After reaching room temp, the record was more notably warped than ever. I'm not really sure if I'll try the glass or just throw this one away. A cheap fix would be nice though. I think $1500 is too much for a disc flattener given how rarely I actually mistakenly buy a warped LP.
shsohis
119 posts
 
Downunder:

Can you provide the brand and model of the Japanese LP flattener? Thankks.
grimace
624 posts
 
I tried two polished 12-inch marble tiles in the 200 degree oven and that worked great! Stick the sandwich in the oven, turn it off and come back when its cool. You're good to go.
downunder
1,329 posts
 
Shsohis,
see previous thread which has most of the info
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1211975287&openfrom&8&4

email me and I will send you the info including who you can purchase off in Japan.
sonofjim
557 posts
 
Grimace,
Did you preheat the marble in the oven first or just stick the room temp sandwich in a preheated oven which had been turned off. I think my mistake may have been pre-heating my stones first. Anyway, sounds like marble works better than pizza stones.
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