Re: [ARSCLIST] LP RECORD STORAGE

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Garage, eh? You can't do that in the lovely suburban NYC climate unless you want 
rotten/stuck-together sleeves after one cycle of seasons. Our garage varies from below freezing to 
100+ degrees and humidity is same as ambient air (ie wet like a sponge most of recent summers). No 
dice for storing anything worthwhile that includes paper. I know a guy on Long Island who has "a 
whole garage full" of airtapes he made in the 50's while working at one of the radio networks, in a 
premiere news operation. I'd love to transfer them all for him, but he's in his 80s and they're 
buried deep in the mess. I keep crossing my fingers that Scotch 111 will survive the conditions but 
it's highly doubtful. I do know one thing -- the goniffs who now own this network would consider 
whatever vintage tapes are left to be a "cost center" and their consultants would recommend dumping 
them in the first round of cost-cutting mandated to meet a Wall Street quarterly stock price target.

-- Tom Fine


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <SoundThink@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] LP RECORD STORAGE


> In a message dated 8/8/2006 9:54:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> punto@xxxxxxxx writes:
>
> Yes,
>
> I certainly would not recommend the shelves that I bought  at the Home
> Despot a few years back for use in a storage locker. The  vertical posts
> are probably rigid and strong enough, but the shelf was  cheap chipboard
> which has started to cave in under the weight of some  boxes of old
> Gramophone and Fanfare mags.
>
>
> About 25 years ago I bought a huge 7' x 4' x 12" particle board  bookshelf
> unit from Home Depot, or whatever passed for Home Depot back then.  There was no
> way a four foot shelf was going to hold LPs, so I bought some extra  boards
> and cut them into dividers, spacing them one foot apart. I nailed them in
> place, staggering them to distribute the weight and to make it easier to nail
> from above and below the dividers. So now I have a five shelf unit stocked with
> LPs and it's been fine ever since. I didn't paint it and it's ugly as
> chipboard  can get, but who notices once it's loaded with records? It's up against a
> wall  in my garage, bolted to the studs.
>
> Cary  Ginell
> Origin Jazz  Library
> www.originjazz.com