Grooves In The Vinyl

The grooves inspiralled story.

Grooves in the vinyl.

Life long san franciscan ray andersen started grooves inspiralled vinyl 20 years ago after maxxing out yet another storage space with records lunchboxes books and sundry ephemera from a lifetime of collecting taking root on a cozy shop on market st he quickly built his vinyl only vision into a san francisco institution. A san francisco tradition. Tired of dealing with dirty vinyl flooring. A warp can cause a regular wow or fluctuation of musical pitch and if substantial it can make a record physically unplayable.

For years i hated the vinyl flooring in our laundry room. Starting in the 1940s polyvinyl chloride became common hence the name vinyl. Dust in the groove is usually heard as noise and may be ground into the vinyl by the passing stylus causing lasting damage. It s the easiest way to clean vinyl flooring.

Vinyl records are vulnerable to dust heat warping scuffs and scratches. Help my floors are only a year old and you could almost not even notice but i was comparing my dining and kitchen floors and realized there s dirt in the grooves of the vinyl flooring the only thing that could get it up was a magic erase sponge but it s going to be impossible to do the whole floor. Check out this simple tip on how to get ground in dirt out of vinyl flooring. There s a lot more to cleaning and removing.

At first the discs were commonly made from shellac with earlier records having a fine abrasive filler mixed in. But have i simply gone too far to prove a point. I ll won t comment too much because these pictures really do speak for themselves. Your vinyl record s grooves magnified 1 000x under an electron microscope.

The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. But still i think you ll agree that the results are stunning. New album escape out 10 aug.