It has been a while since I had a warped new record, but one arrived yesterday
It plays okay, despite 1cm+ gentle waves of warp - the tonearm tracks fine, but the look of it grates. If it was a dish-warp I wouldn’t be that concerned.
Out of interest, it is Duke Ellington ‘Money Jungle’ - the De Agostini 2016 pressing. I have a few of these reissues and they have all been flat, unsure as to whether the Seller stored the album poorly?
Anyhoo, I have dug out my glass sandwich/G-clamp contraption, got the oven to 40° C. and baked it for 10 minutes (oven off and oven door cracked open) - it is cooling now.
I remember that the approx. temperature of ‘bad’ is from about 70° C. upwards, so have avoided getting the oven anywhere near that, (using a rather nice digital meat thermometer) I thought I would start
gentle.
I am aware that others have tried kettle/steam, and irons but I think that is too hot.
Also, I don’t want to just leave the record sandwiched twixt glass, or with weights on top for several months… I have tried that before and got no positive results. I think heat is required.
I have also tried leaving a warped record sandwiched between glass and clamped in bright sunlight, but that didn’t work for me either.
At worse I have ruined the record. At best there will be a small reduction in the warp. My gut feeling is that nothing would have happened.
It has passed an hour, the record wasn’t expensive.
Worth noting the record arrived ’sealed’ so I cannot expect the Seller to be liable…
If it was an expensive record, and the Seller had opportunity to check the vinyl, I would be returning the record rather than playing silly boggers