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If a small amount of glue is squeezed out through the rejoined crack, it usually will disappear after a few plays with a steel needle but it's best to use as little as is necessary to do the job in the first place. It's worth a try though, in a case like that, where the only alternative is the trash can. Even when the repair is perfectly well done, the record will never be perfect again, so I've only bothered with this a few times, when the record that was broken is one that would be especially difficult or costly to replace. So the joining must be absolutely precise. One thing that I've found can spoil the project is that if the repair is offset even by half the width of a single groove, the record will fail to track properly, especially toward the middle of the disc, and become an audio train wreck.

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You do end up with two audible clicks per revolution in the case of restoring something uniquely rare such as the Vitaphone disc, I'm pretty sure that once the halves are joined the sound of the crack would be removed digitally once the disc is playable at all. Working on the heavy, perfectly flat glass surface that I use to flatten warped records, I line up the two sides of the disc, applying some pressure toward the break until it's reliably set, then let it sit an hour or two until completely dry.

It needs a very quick application of a minimal amount of good old crazy glue to each side of the break quick because it dries so fast and loses its power. I've never heard of anyone who offers such repairs as a service, but I've done it myself with decent results.

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