I finally, after over 10 years (10 years!!!) found a copy of the Mystery Guests 7" single - Wurlitzer Junction/The Merry Shark You Are (Boys Own, 1980) on gemm.com two weeks ago. It arrived in the post, I swooned with reverence and stared in wonder at the thing, treating it with reverence, meaning to store it somewhere "safe" as soon as possible. Anyway, I'm in the midst of moving all my stuff in boxes from one place to another, and the 7" was in the new place. In the middle of stacking all the boxes I was moving it from here to there and the disc itself fell out of the sleeve, flew through the air, landing, not safely on the carpet but right onto a heavy, metal free weight belonging to my fuckwit brother lying on the floor, where it crunched and a large v-shaped slice of vinyl cracked from the side of the record... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was quite upset about that... In fact I couldn't even get out of bed until after mid-day the following day. That was a week ago today, and I still feel wretched about it. I've only ever seen one copy of this thing ever! God knows when I'll see another copy. Anyway, my question is, since the cracked part still exists, and since the rest of the record (the last couple of minutes??) is still 'playable'... is it possible to, say, superglue the cracked bit back and play the whole record?? At least then I could presumably do a tape from it and a CDR or something. Might be a bit cratched for the first 2 minutes but better than nothing...
I've honestly never broken a single record before IN MY LIFE! (not accidentally anyway) And the first breakage has to be this one... Curses!!! My whole life is ruined >:(
Can anyone give me any advice on this? Feel free to laugh. Oh, and if anyone out there actually HAS (another) copy of the Mystery Guests "Wurlitzer Junction" single on the Boys Own label, 1980 would you PLEASE consider selling it to me??? :)
― David Hume, Saturday, 17 April 2004 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)
Bummer, dude ... A delicate superglue job might work. Since it's a 7" then the grooves should be fairly widely spaced, so the precision of the glueing job isn't as critical as it would be with, say, an album with 25 min playing time per side. Good luck.
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 17 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)
Use super glue, and get one of those pipettes with the extremely small nozzles (they're like one step up from a micro pipette) that they use in Chem. classes.
I've been taking guitar repair classes, and that's what we use for really delicate repairs like that. Just be sure to either get a bunch of them, or always store them with the nozzle pointing upwards, or the glue will dry in them.
― Nick Lanham (EstrangedNative), Sunday, 18 April 2004 09:44 (twenty-two years ago)
David Hume is a philosophical chap.
However, he needs to learn that if you do finally get hold of a piece of vinyl you will treasure, looking after it is wise.
― ___ (___), Sunday, 18 April 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)
I had something familiar with an album a long time ago, here's what i did, i took a same size record and glueed the two parts on another record, (i didn't care so much about the b-side). that avoided the risk of the grooves getting filled with glue. It worked well, a little bump everytime it passed the crack but it was well listenable.
― Johan van den Brakel (Jeee), Monday, 19 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)
I just checked my database of my archive and I have 12 copies of that album in mint condition, 5 in good condition, and 8 in poor condition. The crazy thing is that I would NEVER EVER part with a single copy of this album, because it is just that damn good. Now pardon me while I listen to 7 copies at once on my 7.1 surround sound record playing system.
― Scarfy McGee, Monday, 19 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)