[Phono-L] Regarding lacquer storage

[Douglas Houston]

One other thing about lacquered items. Some vinyl plastics have a
plasticizer in them that doesn't get along well with lacquer. In one
instance, there was a piece of vinyl insulation sleeving laying against the
black lacquered base for my Garrard transcription turntable for possibly a
week or so. When I picked up the sleeving, it had lifted the lacquer down
to the wood on the turntable base where it had been touching. 

Another place where vinyls will lift lacquer was with a  fender cover of
vinyl coated fabric, on the fender of a friend's car,  painted in nitro
lacquer. The cover had attacked the paint, and made it sticky. The fender
had to be repainted. 

There are some vinyls that won't attack lacquer, but some have strong
plasticizers in them that will do a number on Nitro lacquers. Those
lacquers are used on furniture, radio, and phnograph cabinets after 1925. 


> [Original Message]
> From: Jay Horenstein <jay.horenstein at gmail.com>
> To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Date: 8/28/2009 11:43:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Regarding lacquer storage
>
> Thanks for the information, I had no idea.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org [mailto:phono-l-bounces at oldcrank.org]
On
> Behalf Of Robert Wright
> Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 2:01 AM
> To: Phono L
> Subject: [Phono-L] Regarding lacquer storage
>
>
> By the way, and many of you may know this, never let acetate/lacquer
> discs get near poly sleeves.  Some kind of chemical reaction happens
> that can ruin them.  The original sleeves they come in are best, or any
> good paper sleeve (acid-free is desirable, obviously).  A transcription
> engineer told me this -- after I'd been keeping all my 12" lacquers in
> a clear poly sleeve for more than a few months.  When I removed them,
> there was a solid yellow circle clearly visible in the poly sleeve.
>
> Best,
> Robert
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