Eddie Hubbard Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 I bought this great Mattie Moultrie record from a fair a while back .Any ideas on products to clean the felt pen marks off the label ? Thanks for any ideas ,Cheers ,Eddie
Tabs Posted August 31, 2008 Posted August 31, 2008 Ed, Whatever you use will almost certainly have to be solvent based, acetone, meths, even lighter fuel! However you will need to experiment and 'dab' off the pen marks, with cotton wool balls. DON'T wipe as you will run the risk of spreading the pen ink across the rest of the label. Also solvents can have an adverse effect on vinyl, if you make a mistake. Get a crap pop record and practice on that. Looking at the scan I don't think it would be that successful anyway. The felt pen is probably ingrained into the fibre of the paper label. No matter how much you get out you will always have the 'shadow' remaining. Cheers Tabs I bought this great Mattie Moultrie record from a fair a while back .Any ideas on products to clean the felt pen marks off the label ? Thanks for any ideas ,Cheers ,Eddie
John Elias Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 Seem to remember asking this on here a few years back and the conclusion was leave well alone it will probably make it worse,just settle for it's what's in the groove that counts
boba Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 Seem to remember asking this on here a few years back and the conclusion was leave well alone it will probably make it worse,just settle for it's what's in the groove that counts I would agree with this, but one thing you can do that's kind of cool with a glossy Lp cover to remove writing -- you can run a dry erase marker on top of the original marker until you re-wet it, then you get wipe it off. Don't do it to a paper record label though.
steve Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 I bought this great Mattie Moultrie record from a fair a while back .Any ideas on products to clean the felt pen marks off the label ? Thanks for any ideas ,Cheers ,Eddie Hello Ed You can always push the centre out!!!! lol Steve
Eddie Hubbard Posted September 1, 2008 Author Posted September 1, 2008 Ed, Whatever you use will almost certainly have to be solvent based, acetone, meths, even lighter fuel! However you will need to experiment and 'dab' off the pen marks, with cotton wool balls. DON'T wipe as you will run the risk of spreading the pen ink across the rest of the label. Also solvents can have an adverse effect on vinyl, if you make a mistake. Get a crap pop record and practice on that. Looking at the scan I don't think it would be that successful anyway. The felt pen is probably ingrained into the fibre of the paper label. No matter how much you get out you will always have the 'shadow' remaining. Cheers Tabs Thanks for the advice Tabs , think I'll leave well alone .All this guys / girls ? records were like this , makes you wanna cry eh ? Only bought this one as A. I love it and B. Never had a copy on UK . Best ever version of the Otis / OV Wright classic deepie .Best ,Eddie
Eddie Hubbard Posted September 1, 2008 Author Posted September 1, 2008 Hello Ed You can always push the centre out!!!! lol Steve Thanks for no help whatsoever Steve !! Best ,Eddie
Fdsoul6345789 Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 (edited) Hi Eddie, you could try a small area first with a cotton bud dipped in MILK sometimes it is good to remove ink marker try it you may be lucky mate. Worth a try! best regards fraser fdsoul6345789 Edited September 1, 2008 by fdsoul6345789
Pete S Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 Thanks for the advice Tabs , think I'll leave well alone .All this guys / girls ? records were like this , makes you wanna cry eh ? Only bought this one as A. I love it and B. Never had a copy on UK . Best ever version of the Otis / OV Wright classic deepie .Best ,Eddie Eddie, I remember buying that blind and hating it thought it was gonna be a dancer. Anyway, as for the WOL - give up, nothing gets rid of it. The only time I've ever got that kind of pen off a label was a jackie edwards - feel so bad, the writing was on the white parts of the label so I dipped a tiny brush (think it was nail varnish or something) into pure bleach and wiped over it a few times...melted it!
Eddie Hubbard Posted September 3, 2008 Author Posted September 3, 2008 Hi Eddie, you could try a small area first with a cotton bud dipped in MILK sometimes it is good to remove ink marker try it you may be lucky mate. Worth a try! best regards fraser fdsoul6345789 Thanks for the tip Fraser , never heard of that method before !! Cheers ,Eddie
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