Fixing misaligned off-centre vinyl pressings

I have maybe a dozen or so records in my collection where the pressing is a bit off-centre on one side, causing noticeable pitch variation in some cases. I was thinking I could fix them by drilling another hole where the centre ought to be.. anyone had any success doing this, and if so, any hints or tips you'd care to share?

stand sideways when you play them.

I've used a knife to carve out a barely larger hole so it can be properly centered. You can take small shavings off at a time in the direction which corrects the misalignment, and then test every few shavings to make sure you're not going too far.

Off center records (esp when bought new) drive me bonkers. We can put a man on the moon etc...

Better off getting a turntable without a spindle.

Or, get a number of slipmats, put them on the turntable until centre holes are enough above the spindle, then try and place the record so the grooves are concentric (is that the right word? Anyway, you know what I'm saying here)

no, do NOT do that. it will ruin your needle.

I think a longer tonearm would help, because it travels though less of an arc.

I used to think a linear tracking turntable would do the job, with the arm following the wobble. But it really doesn't do that; it still sort of pivots.

Gone with the knife option - it's not quite right, but a big improvement! Cheers guys.

Anybody have any suggestions for when the hole is a bit tight which causes the record to not spin with the surface underneath unless ii is pushed around with a finger? I don't want to start carving the center of my records- maybe if oiled up the little metal rod in the middle, perhaps it'll be enough?

Sorry, that post would look nicer but it is late.

i've found inserting a ball point pen and twisting it around a bit solves this, not sure if it's that great an idea though.

Good thing about my piece-of-crap late-'70s Crown music-centre was that you could remove the turntable spindle. For woefully off-centre pressings, I could nudge them about until the tonearm stopped doing the slow shimmy...and then dub them to cassette! Michell might have give some thought to fixing warped records with their clamp but I can't pull the spindle out...

I have a tapered round metal file which is maybe 5mm at the thin end (the internet tells me a spindle hole should be 7.2mm wide, so smaller than that, anyway) which I've used (gently!) for enlarging a few tight spindle holes. Cost about $5 from a small local hardware store, so I assume they're fairly easy to find.

I don't know if you're meant to do that or not, but I haven't noticeably damaged anything yet. Then again, I probably wouldn't try it on anything precious, either.

If any vinyl purists are crying at the thought of this, let me know and I won't do it again!