Peter is correct, I reamed one record, it now fits but not properly. I wish I had read this years ago and I no longer own a reamer.
Thanks, Steve > >No, actually, the best reamer is no reamer. > >The way to do it is to take a flat-edged table knife and scrape down >the high spots. you can identify the high spots easily by noticing >shiny gray places in the plaster, where the nickel of the mandrel has >compressed and discolored the white plaster when you press the record >onto the mandrel. > >see, scrape, fit, repeat. do it until the record fits far enough to >play. it takes time, but this is why you should do that: > >a reamer gets those high spots, but also sands down the corresponding >opposite spots. you end up with a perfectly round interior diameter, >but one that is usually not concentric with the exterior >diameter...and so the whole record orbits the axis of rotation >eccentrically (that is, the playing surface rises and lowers relative >to the mandrel's surface, with each rotation) and sounds >awful...permanently! > >
