Sealed records and their inner sleeves
Reynaldo
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When sealed records are opened for the first time, why is it that sometimes the inner sleeves are folded over at a corner or more, while other times they are not? Does anyone have any insight into this somewhat disturbing lack of uniformity?Also: In the record production process what or who generally puts the sleeved disc into the cover? Assuming the latter, what gives a factory worker the right to crease my inner sleeve?
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Naw, I can only do math.
the achillies heel of dudes worldwide
it's that crease that drives you crazy
That's probably your best post yet.
now it is.
Just be thankful that after 30 years those fuckers aren't WARPED.
ill take that crease and raise you a fold!
but surriuosly, a minty yet folded inner sleeve is kind of cool, it ensures the seal wasnt a re-seal.
Totally getting off topic.. and I would post a new topic but it seems SS has a new topics popping up daily and I don't want to contribute any more..
Do you often open sealed records to play?? I have a sealed copy of Coffy and I would love to open and play it but like you say.. what if it warped because it's been in shrink all this time? So maybe I should just sell it and hopefully with the money made buy an open copy of Coffy and have some spare change left too? Of course, if some dude buys it, opens it, and it's warped, now I got worries.
funny
my copy of coffy is sealed and up on my wall
a shit load of those must have just went right into the cut out bin..sealed
i have the reish for spins but sealed rare heavy records are a conondrum as to open or not
i paid an even 100 in a trade for it and i still wonder if its warped
cause that's how you make inner sleeves fit
into jackets when the jacket is too tight,
fold over the back corner.
At every pressing plant I've ever worked with, a human being puts the records in the sleeves. This is mostly because metal and vinyl are a deadly combination. At United there are two little old ladies who sit there and do it all day. They've probably sleeved billions of records.
I've never heard of this process. Most pressing plants to do not manufacture jackets, actually I can't think of one in the US that has both services on the same site. Generally, sleeves are farmed out and shipped to the plant. We use Stoughton for gatefolds and Dorado for innersleeves. Both ship to the pressing plant, then the people stick the record into the innersleeve, and finally the innersleeve into the jacket. Shrinkwrap is optional.
As vinyl is a rather "archaic" technology, there hasn't been too many developments in automation over the last twenty years. Why is your innersleeve corner creased? Because if you stuff 40,000 records a day, not every one is going to be perfect.
To quote John Bender:
It's an imperfect world, screws fall out.
UNLESS YOUR NAME IS BAMBOUCHE.