Earlier this summer some friends kindly bought me some vinyl records, but then subsequently left them in the trunk of their car for several weeks. Being in a car's trunk in the South during the summer is, let's just say, not ideal record storage, leading to several of the records becoming severely warped.

I tried setting several large books and weights on top of them for an extended period of time (we're talking about a month or more, here) to no avail. I also tried the Wiki-How oven trick; buy two panes of glass, set the record between them with the oven at 175, take them out after 3 minutes, and then immediately press the record between the sheets of glass with something heavy while they're cooling. Still no dice here.

So do any of you have tips? Is 175 too cool? Should I wait longer than 3 minutes? I have several throw-away records to test on, so I'm willing to try a few different methods here.