Re: [ARSCLIST] Cat-astrophy, was [ARSCLIST] Disaster recovery- LPs

[Dan Kj- <edisone1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I once had the 'luck' to get a badly cat-a-tized collection for free.  Much 
of it had to be tossed just because of the smell,
and many of the records were destroyed by the urine as it sat for a while; 
the surface in those spots was virtually disintegrated!


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 10:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Cat-astrophy, was [ARSCLIST] Disaster recovery- LPs


> "Steven C. Barr" wrote:
> > The biggest problem (or so I thought) was going to be the fact
> > that the resident felines had liberally marked their shellac
> > territory. Oddly enough, the only problem I have seen so far
> > is that discs, sleeves and boxes are, shall we say, odiferous...
> > even a few records that I found in sleeves damp with...well,
> > you know...seemed not to have suffered any permanent damage!
> > It does seem to have rendered a number of labels illegible,
> > however...
> >
> > I didn't exactly to make this test, but I thought I might
> > share the results (in case anyone is offered old 78's by
> > a cat-loving little old lady?)...
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
>
> Any time I borrow a record from Steve to transfer, I clean it on the 
> Monks, put
> it in a new sleeve, stick it among the other records I'm going to use, and 
> my
> cat is still all over it like a cheap suit.
>
> dl