Broken 78's!!!

What can you expect from ebay? They only came from Victoria to South Australia and 5 out of 20 records are broken around the edge, including the one I was most looking forward to; Twelfth street rag :(
I'll get some more soon and post some vids of them playing just as soon as my gramophone gets here.

P.S. If anyone knows if/how you can repair broken 78's PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE message me and tell me how!!!! They are only small broken pieces but they are all at the start of the song!

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[MRLOL785]

Shame that they before they even arrived :( On an ironic note, you have 78 videos!

[PKamargo]

(Almost 3 years after you posted this...)

Well, you can glue the pieces back, but you need to do a very precise work using a loupe and extreme care to perfectly align the record grooves and be sure to let the surface plane also perfectly aligned.

[dynamokiev1998]

It can be fixed with super glue

[hyzercreek]

There is a standard way to ship 78's that everybody used to know, but now all the kids who grew up with iPods have no clue. You cut pieces of cardboard 10 inches square, about 3 or 4 pieces on top of the record and same on the bottom, and tape FIRMLY the record or bundle of records in between the cardboard. Put this sandwich of cardboard and records inside a 14 inch box full of peanuts and you're 100% guaranteed not to break them.

[monsy13us]

ughh this happened to me too!! except this was both the sellers and the mail mans fault who ships a beatles record in a cushioned mailer and who stuffs a square thing into a small mail box?? come on i was soo pissed and sad because i really wanted this record!! atleast im the only one!

[fdepoalo]

I can sympathize with you - I had people ship 78rpm records to me in flat boxes that didn't have a prayer of surviving. The best of all is when someone shipped a 78 in a manila business envelope - that was it. AN ENVELOPE!!! What are these idiots thinking?

[RaymondTVinyl]

Horrors!!  What were they thinking??!!

[sopaman1234]

That's not right, it has happened a couple times to me on E-bay with 78's. So i don't deal with just anybody any more, even if the records are insured and you get a refund is one thing, but trying to find a copy of that same record in great condition is

another...

[Jpmadore1]

I never any record break from eBay, but I purchased a 78 from a collector online a while ago who wanted to sell some of his records, and he had a record I had been looking for for ages-a NM copy of Kelly Harrell's "Charley, He's A Good Old Man". I purchased it (for over $40) and it arrived busted into about 12 pieces. Oh well. You'd think coming from a 78 collector he'd realize how delicate 78s are...

[rapperchileno]

I have heard that epoxy or similar can also be used