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Vinyl record production has finally joined the modern age
Viryl has developed a first-in-the-industry: A steamless system [for creating vinyl records] that will make massive boilers and piping systems a thing of the past. Not only does it obviate some of the costs and permits previously involved, but it also becomes a more environmentally friendly process. Vinyl record pressing has finally bootstrapped itself into the modern age on all counts and stands to encourage new pressing plants to support vinyl's resurgent popularity.
Traditionally, the molds used to stamp out vinyl discs are heated by steam which is delivered to the press from a boiler. Viryl's steamless module electrically heats water to the desired 285 degrees Fahrenheit so the molds can melt pucks of PVC into a record. This new method of heating, removes gas, the boiler and extensive plumbing from the equation.
This new setup is a closed system that can live right next to the press, allowing for a smaller footprint in your workspace. It also reduces water waste, although you'll still need cooling lines. One of the biggest factors here, though, is that no boiler means none of the treatment chemicals used to keep a boiler in working order, so the environment wins. A setup that requires less square footage could also make Viryl's new presses a more attractive solution when space is limited or at a premium. Existing customers luck out as well, since it's possible to retrofit presses with the new option.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday December 06 2018, @08:36PM (1 child)
It's called "vintage".
Vintage is all the crap our parents owned that we couldn't to get rid of fast enough, that somehow became cool to our kids.
I'm old enough to have amassed a sizeable collection of LPs back when I was younger. I literally RUSHED to replace them things with CDs as soon as the latter came out. LPs are fine and dandy when you play them every once in a while on your expensive vintage deck to your hip friends. But when they're the only way to have decent music, and they degrade play after play, and you have to change the needle, and you have to handle the damn records like your life depended on it, and you couldn't play them in your car (well, you could, but that was just utterly ridiculous [wikipedia.org])... well, I say fuck vinyls and good riddance.
I just wish I had kept my records to sell to vintage lovers today and turn a profit. But who knew the hateful format would make a comeback back then eh?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 06 2018, @09:03PM
Or in some instances, . . . hoarding.
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