1. Foreign matter deposits which are not part of the original object, such as grease from fingerprints, soot, stains, adhesives, etc., causes alterations to the originality of the vinyl record material through chemical reactions.
2. Watch out and take care whether it is an internal or external reaction with environmental agents, metal corrosive products, palmitic acid from acetate discs, or gummy substances, due care and attention is of the utmost importance in avoidance. 3. Dust is common mixture of fragments from human skin, small particles of mineral or plant material, textile fibres, industrial smoke, and other organic and inorganic materials. Remember; the human body sheds dead skin every thirteen days, and that is the basis of most dust particles. more
4. There are often salts such as sodium chloride carried in from sea spray or on skin fragments, and sharp gritty silica crystals. In this chemical mixture are the spore of countless moulds, fungi and micro organisms that live on the organic material in the dust fingerprints on the records. Dust including fingerprints will harmfully affect sound recording preservations in quite a number of ways. |
