5. Dust is abrasive, and collectively with the pressure exerted on the groove walls by the stylus, can permanently scratch the walls making it worse and unplayable, dust is a great danger to the vinyl reproductive status and can become everlastingly imbedded into the thermoplastic platter (Record). 6. Only a small point of the stylus is actually making contact with the groove walls; one and a half grams of stylus pressure on such a minute surface can be transformed into several tons of weight per square inch. 7. The resulting drag generates enough heat that cause the plastic partly melts though not enough to deform, but causing a microscopic flow around the stylus into which dust can be everlastingly embedded. 8. Always remember to treat your vinyl as if they're your most cherished possessions; take good care of your record covers and inner sleeves also! The first thing to remember is this fact: an analogue vinyl record is far more fragile than a CD where a shield of clear hard substance protects the information imprinted on the CD, the vinyl has no such protection and is subjected to all sorts of environmental hazards. | 
