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

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

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

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.

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

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

Hello Ed

You can always push the centre out!!!! lol

Steve

Thanks for no help whatsoever Steve !! Best ,Eddie

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

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Edited September 1, 200816 yr by fdsoul6345789

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!

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

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Thanks for the tip Fraser , never heard of that method before !! Cheers ,Eddie