Best Outer Sleeves for LPs


Is there a recommended type of plastic sleeve to protect valuable record covers from aging, yellowing, etc? I can buy them very inexpensively from the Princeton Record Exchange, but wondered whether they would have the desired effect. I've also seen poypropylene sleeves sold online at Sleeve City. Any recommendations? Thanks very much!
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Showing 2 responses by kurt_tank

Hey Elizabeth, glad to see that you caught your error! ;-)

Being a civil engineer and a land surveyor, units are very important in my line of work. We need to keep track of them as we are constantly switching from feet and inches to decimal feet to metric. However, our favorite units of measurements are for velocity, where we love to measure speed in terms of Furlongs per fortnight. ;-)

And yeah, I agree with you that we should cast the Metric system into the ninth circle of hell! (It does nothing but make my life miserable whenever I have to use it.)
Hey Ghosthouse,

Interesting that you mentioned using cubits as a unit of measure. We tried that a few years back, but the funny thing was that no matter what type of structure we designed, be it a house, a store, or an office building, they always ending up looking like an Ark.
Weird, huh?! ;-)

By the way, to the topic at hand, I use the same 2.5 mil clear plastic bags that Rushton uses. These don't have the flap on top, but given that my records are put in sideways, and that they are in a record rack, there is very little chance that any dust can work its way into the record sleeve itself,so a flap just seems to be pointless in my case.