[Jukebox-list] Re: How to clean those records?/ Styrene

[David Breneman]

--- "Mechanical Music of S.F." <mechanicalmusic at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> David, not to land your balloon, but it wasn't just CBS labels
> (Columbia, Epic, etc.) doing styrene records.
> The certainly were HUGE on them, though.  I do find some
> CBS/Columbia stuff out here (California) on vinyl from the
> 1968-1980 era fairly regularly.

I'm surprised to hear that.  I don't follow this religiouly,
as 45s to me aren't so much a collectable as a source of music.
Columbia is, historically, the big producer.  Unlike vinyl
records that are pressed from vinyl "biscuits" in waffle
iron like presses, polystyrene records are injection molded
from melted plastic pellets much like model airplane kits.
Perhaps someone has come up with a way to *press* styrene
records, and that accounts for the popularity you've
observed.  The hardware is in no way interchangeable, so
it's hard to understand why as record pressing plants 
dwindle, people would invest in the oddball injection
molding equipment unless Columbia flooded the market with
used machines when they shut down.



David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com


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