Warp p’d

Ok peeples, in advance of JC building my new stage, I have been excitedly exploring some old vin-wil (don’t shoot me, but this happens to be the Beastie Boys) - I have a warp/kink in the first track that makes it near unplayable, it’s like a crease to the point where the stylus actually skips back to the same groove regardless of tonearm counterbalance - any recommendations to ‘iron’ out a storage crease?

Edge warps or pinch warps are the most difficult to repair of any warp. The problem is that even if you manage to fix it, the grooves will likely be distorted and it will throw the music off pitch during that section. Tonearm might be moving side to side or shaking a bit during that section as well, even after flattening. Also, expensive record flatteners along cannot fix these types of warps without some intervention. You'll need to clamp on binder clips or add weight on the section where the edge warp is and there is no guarantee of success. I would practice with some junk records you don't care about before attempting this on a valuable album.

I wasn’t aware of record clamps, I was looking at it today and wondering if weighing it flat for a period would make any difference..?

I have just been watching a video on YouTube by ‘TrackingAngle’ entitled: “Got a warped record? Or a warped sense of humor? The AFI FLAT.DUO claims it can flatten the record”