Re: [ARSCLIST] Supplies for transporting LP collections

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Dr. Cheryl Thurber" <cthurb@xxxxxxxxx>
> Most milk crates are too small for Lps, There was a crate available in the 90s
that was perfect in size for Lps, including in height, they were discontinued,
but the Container Store currently sells them and they are about $8 each. There
is/was even a version that is narrower and holds about 30 records. I have
managed to get most of the ones I have from yard sales and thrift stores, but
they are not easy to find. That container is like milk crates and so it has
numerous holes on the sides, if you are looking for a totally enclosed container
that is harder to find, but if you are willing to go cardboard, wine boxes are
frequently the right size, and you can discard them and use fresh ones for
cleaned records.
>
1) As I noted, the dimensions of "milk boxes" were intentionally reduced to
"too small to hold LP albums" by a dairy industry who were getting tired of
seeing their containers disappear into private hands...this was c.1979-80
here in Canada (where the newer & smaller ones are often called "metric"
milk boxes...!) and, it appears, may have been later "south of the border."

2) Interesting to note the old larger version is available as "civilian
milk boxes!" Out of curiosity, are these actually "unmarked" milk boxes
(which would mean they have the same load capacity...!) or are they
somewhat flimsier plastic crates which LOOK like milk boxes...?!

3) Another "I wonder" question"...Is it possible to clean a vinyl record
SO thoroughly that it thereafter has to be kept UNexposed to the "outside
world" for fear of being "dirtied" by atmospheric dust, mold/mildew spores
and/or any other foreign matter which might be drifting about?! It would
seem, in that case, that such a cleaning process would then render the disc
in question forever inaccessible (except for a laboratory-level "clean
room" where all air is filtered and parties wishing to handle the disc
would have to be dressed in special clothing and breathe through state-of-
the-art filtering masks...?!) How does one play a disc in this setting?!

Steven C. Barr