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Owen Y

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Dudes...

 

What were the best recommendations last time, for sourcing regular, matt, non-stick plastic, round-ended inner sleeves for vinyl? Nothing fancy.

 

Have previously bought from Real Groovy, but I suspect that the price has now gone up (to $0.35ea).

 

Has been previously discussed but too lazy to search at the mo ;) Thks.

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mycenius;105648 wrote:
Shouldn't you be recycling those supermarket bags everyone refuses to pay 5c for?

Actually, we should probably be storing vinyl records in unbleached natural cotton bags :cool:

 

Or... silk sleeves :D

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michael w;105864 wrote:
No plastic.

 

No floppy Nagaokas.

 

[ ... ]

 

 

Thanks for the interesting read!

 

[Mention of my ~two decade old Nagaoka sleeves was slightly tongue-in-cheek]

 

But I see the article had the Mobile Fidelity Original Master Sleeves highly recommended, and the authors favourite, and LP gear has them at

http://www.lpgear.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=LG&Product_Code=MOFIMASTSL&Category_Code=LPSLEEVES

 

I might yet look up PQ Imports &etc for your mentioned Nitty Grittys ... :)

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michael w;105864 wrote:
No plastic.

 

 

 

No floppy Nagaokas.

 

 

 

Poly-lined paper Nitty Gritty sleeves for me.

 

From PQ Imports or their dealers.

 

 

 

For those who missed it the first or second time around, a welcome repeat...

 

 

 

Myles Astor's epic treatise on that perpetual question for vinyl collectors, Paper or Plastic ?

 

 

 

 

Thanks Michael, an interesting read!!.. certainly missed both first and second time 'round!

FWIW.. my Nagaoka sleeves were placed inside to original paper sleeves to get around most of the 'gripes' ... and like RdM, bought over 20yeas ago.. when they didn't seem that expensive. IIRC they were recommeded by HN&RR and in their 'club' items.

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Regular, round-ended, matt poly sleeves are fine for me.

 

I've a big collection & the need is mainly to replace older glossy plastic (pvc?) sleeves in older records, many of which are collected s/h, and/or records after cleaning.

 

Unfortunately also, pop/jazz LPs never seemed to be packaged in the matt plastic-lined paper sleeves that were standard issue for Euro manuf classical in the 70s/80s (eg. EMI/DG/Philips...).

 

Oh and, static hardly ever seems to be a problem, up here in Akld ;)

 

RG's prices seem to have almost doubled, IIRC.

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Owen Y;105890 wrote:
Regular, round-ended, matt poly sleeves are fine for me.

 

 

 

I've a big collection & the need is mainly to replace older glossy plastic (pvc?) sleeves in older records, many of which are collected s/h, and/or records after cleaning.

 

 

 

Oh and, static hardly ever seems to be a problem, up here in Akld
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RG's prices seem to have almost doubled, IIRC.

 

Probably LDPE...the clarity and lack of odour says not PVC, and PVC would be too expensive relative to LDPE in anycase for this end use on any scale. If you are curious, and don't mind destructive testing, then take a piece of copper rod or decent gauge solid copper wire, heat it in a flame, press it into the plastic then burn in the flame... if the flame burns green = PVC.. if bright yellow and smokey.. then chances are it is one of the PE family.

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Nak-Mad;105875 wrote:
Thanks Michael, an interesting read!!.. certainly missed both first and second time 'round!

 

FWIW.. my Nagaoka sleeves were placed inside to original paper sleeves to get around most of the 'gripes' ... and like RdM, bought over 20yeas ago.. when they didn't seem that expensive. IIRC they were recommeded by HN&RR and in their 'club' items.

 

I used Nagaokas in the same manner and in sleeves that were too tight for poly-lined paper inners.

 

Now if the outer is too tight I leave the inner out, helps reduce ringwear too.

 

Tried the MoFi sleeves too, better than Nagaokas but still suffer a bit from floppy-itis.

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