Hot weather

[Dave2002]

34C here in central France yesterday, 39 not uncommon. For over 60 years I have purchased thousands of LPs, and have never, ever, had a problem with warping or melting. I recall one warped LP, caused by somebody else's leaning it against a hot radiator.

I'm guessing you keep the LPs in appropriate storage - vertically, with slight pressure on each side. Also I wonder if you actually expose the LPs to the full heat. If kept in a darker room, to the north side of your house the temperature might be lower - or perhaps a cellar! [Though cellars and garages can give rise to other problems - dust and damp perhaps. Don't even think of storing LPs in the roof space loft!]

I'm suspect that the young trendies who are buying LPs now will find out the hard way.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I once had a cassette tape of The Quintet of the Hot Club of France melt in my old Ford Escort. I'd left it on the seat and it simply bent! And in Scotland too.

Perhaps you should have had Birth of the Cool?

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes! 'Stick to downloads' made me think of the pain of hot sticky plastic car seats on bare legs in my childhood

Thighs will be done. Overdone.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Luxury.
At one point we had a Fiat 500 van ( top speed 37 MPH thankfully) with no seats in the back,and just a thin metal pole across to hold on to.
We used to dream of hot sticky vinyl seats.

At least you arrived wherever with the flesh still attached to the backs of your legs! (Cali's post has stirred up some very unpleasant memories of a Ford Cortina in the mid-late '60s - it would have been more appropriate if it had been written by Flay! )

[teamsaint]

At least you arrived wherever with the flesh still attached to the backs of your legs! (Cali's post has stirred up some very unpleasant memories of a Ford Cortina in the mid-late '60s - it would have been more appropriate if it had been written by Flay! )

Yeah, but we usually had to get through about 30 grocery deliveries on the way......

[Alain Maréchal]

I'm guessing you keep the LPs in appropriate storage - vertically, with slight pressure on each side. Also I wonder if you actually expose the LPs to the full heat. If kept in a darker room, to the north side of your house the temperature might be lower - or perhaps a cellar!

To anybody who has been buying LPs as long as I have, acquiring the appropriate storage you mention is second nature.

Also, in France and elsewhere - building have shutters, which have a purpose. They are tightly closed right now (a sunny 32C), sunset here around 2130 and it will not be cool until then.

[MickyD]

Quite right, Alain...here in Arles, we can sometimes get up to 40° and soon after moving here, this Englishman very quickly discovered how essential shutters are!

[oddoneout]

It's very hot in parts of the UK now. I wonder if any new vinyl enthusiasts - or indeed old ones - are discovering (rediscovering) the "joys" of dealing with warped or even melted vinyl. Presumably CDs, DVDs and Blu Rays can stand the kinds of temperatures which have occurred recently.

My first job after school was working in the local library which also offered records on loan. I well remember some of the 'interesting' shapes adopted by LPs left on parcel shelves and back seats....Unlike scratches there was really nothing the borrowers could do to try and avoid the inevitable charges.