There are several threads about vinyl cleaning, but vinyl inner sleeves are marginally mentioned. Let's discuss the various materials, which is preferred, which is to be avoided.
Sleeves could contain and release visible and invisible particles: debris, plasticizers. They could chemically or physically harm the LP. Although their purpose is to protect the vinyl during storage.
I met the following inner sleeve materials:
Nagaoka 102 Anti-static Record Sleeves
Do you routinely replace the not-so-good inner sleeve to a better one? If so, right after purchasing, or after the first wet cleaning?
Sleeves could contain and release visible and invisible particles: debris, plasticizers. They could chemically or physically harm the LP. Although their purpose is to protect the vinyl during storage.
I met the following inner sleeve materials:
- Paper with a round cutout at the label
- Thick paper, internally smooth, with cover art
- Paper lined with (?) polyproplene
- Soft polyethylene
- Polypropylene (?) - some more thick, opaque, rustling plastic
Nagaoka 102 Anti-static Record Sleeves
Do you routinely replace the not-so-good inner sleeve to a better one? If so, right after purchasing, or after the first wet cleaning?
I use Spincare. I prefer them to the Nagaoka because I always struggle to get the LP into the naggies as they don't open easily once they're in the inner sleeve and the top corners bend over the disc making access difficult.
The paper layer in the Spincare makes all the difference, just stiffens it a little. They fit into virtually all of the cardboard inners, and no static. The only drawback is that its difficult to work out which way is up, both frustrating and could have nasty consequences...
I've always replaced paper & cardboard sleeves going back to the 70's because of the 'paper powder' that got onto discs, similarly from cardboard.
I replace the sleeve after cleaning. I rarely buy new vinyl, these days just second hand from charity shops etc and everything gets at least one cleaning pass 🙂
The paper layer in the Spincare makes all the difference, just stiffens it a little. They fit into virtually all of the cardboard inners, and no static. The only drawback is that its difficult to work out which way is up, both frustrating and could have nasty consequences...
I've always replaced paper & cardboard sleeves going back to the 70's because of the 'paper powder' that got onto discs, similarly from cardboard.
I replace the sleeve after cleaning. I rarely buy new vinyl, these days just second hand from charity shops etc and everything gets at least one cleaning pass 🙂