Heat Damage Vinyl Records

For best results don t store your records in a bright window a grow room or a tanning bed.

Heat damage vinyl records.

Don t leave your records in your car in the sun. Accelerating the process at obviously a higher risk of damage. Vinyl records are most susceptible to ultraviolet light. Such as the strange looking vinyl flat flattener.

In addition avoid storing in areas where the record will be exposed to a lot of dust or airborne particles. The temperature in a car can get very high and even without direct sunlight your records risk getting warped. Heat alone unless it s 150 degrees shouldn t hurt it. People such as examiner music writer former local dj and david sadof.

These ten mistakes can ruin your records and impede sound quality. Depending on the severity of the warp there are a few methods you can use to try and repair the damage. Vinyl records should never ever ever be left in the car. Sources vinyl melting temperature.

This is where vinyl record storage guidelines part ways from indoor plant care. Some of the more adventurous among the vinyl community heat up the vinyl record in an oven to soften up the plastic. Avoid storing them in direct sunlight as the light and heat can fade the jacket artwork and warp the record. Which can damage records in just a few minutes.

Commercial products exist to aide in flattening records at home. It s my completely uneducated opinion that warped records these days leave the factory that way. Doing so only causes the stylus to spread the abrasive sludge deeper into the grooves possibly doing irreversible damage. You will see later that the introduction of heat can help potentially tame your warped record.

If this heat can do damage to siding it will have no problems. Whether they were exposed to uv radiation excessive heat or simple storage mistakes it s possible for your vinyl records to become warped. However that does not mean that you can leave your precious records in your car at the parking lot under the scorching sun. On the other hand i ve read of people who swear off ordering vinyl during the summer.

Lastly never and i mean never ever leave your vinyl records in spots or places with excessive heat. This makes the record sound even worse as the crud dries and embeds itself throughout the record.