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Vinyl Repair?

Last night my wife was putting on our near mint condition original Tusk pressing and proceeded to drop it. In the process of catching it, she put a pretty good gouge into the first 2 songs, resulting in healthy pops I'd like to eliminate if possible. I’ve checked out a couple of YouTube vids on how to fix, but figured I’d trust people here to truly know. Seems like my options are 1) Put weight on needle and hope that somehow regrooves it (also seems like no one here is going to advocate for using your stylus in this manner) 2) the toothpick trick which seems to get good reviews and 3) some sort of 1500 grit sandpaper which seems insane.

Any advice pre divorce?

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clearthinker
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Your disc probably would have been better off if your wife had let it fall.  But catching things you have dropped is a reflex action.

If the behaviour is to become regular, it may be good to ask her to trim her nails.

 

Seriously, long long ago in the days of hardly compliant suspensions I was successful a few times at re-tracking LPs that 'jumped'.  But the process always left an annoying click.  Admittedly better then a jump.

I surely don't get the sand paper idea, that's just insane.

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clearthinker
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@mijostyn 

Hi.  Glad we agree on something!

We called it 'jump' in English English.

Reference the triple jump in athletics, in early days this was known as 'hop skip and jump'.  The skip and the jump were pretty similar.

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clearthinker
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Don't mess with the toothpick.  You might think it's wood so it can damage the vinyl but the vinyl's really soft.

Besides. the point of the toothpick will cover three of four grooves - it's huge, relatively speaking.

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