Stitching Vinyl Lp Pressing Defect

In a hydraulic press fitted with 2 pre heated moulds and fitted with stampers the pre heated vinyl matter is inserted into the machine sandwiched between two completely dry labels.

Stitching vinyl lp pressing defect.

No they don t but their quality can t be denied. They may not be 100 virgin vinyl but to cast aside pressings that aren t is severely limiting product. There is and was no suspect qc on those pressings. I m assuming this is a result of a pressing defect because i have ordered two copies of this lp from two different distributors and both copies feature this identical flaw.

Do they compare to a 45rpm mfsl. This release was limited to 500 un numbered copies. Pressing vinyl is something of a lost art. Think of your stitching as if there were no thread in the holes created by the sewing machine needle those holes become a tear strip which will weaken the vinyl and make it prone to tearing.

Once the pressing process is started the labels and vinyl matter are pressed under a pressure of 100 or more tons at a temperature of 160 c 345 f for a precise. This was the problem that plagued classic s early 200g quiex sv p flat. Non fill refers to a pressing defect that occurs when the molten vinyl does not flow fully to produce a well formed groove. Stitch length for sewing vinyl.

Your stitch length when sewing vinyl fabric should be longer than you would use on regular fabric. Record players with a heavier needle seem to play through this issue better. Sometimes you have an entire bad breakfast. New reissues can have surface noise due to defects in modern manufacture.

Vinyl and jacket are in overall very good condition. Complete package includes lacquer mastering pressings standard black vinyl record pressing color lp labels unprinted inner sleeves upc barcode and 7 full color jackets printed on 15pt white boards. It s complicated because the parameters change during production runs and with different vinyl. Either you re pressing too cool the stampers are heated and cooled with each press or somewhere you re not taking the right amount of time each cycle.

Mint and sealed record can be less than perfect. The sound produced is noise a shsssshing sound that we ve all heard too often. There s a few dodgy ones to start. Pressed 7 vinyl available as 33 or 45 rpm.