Method of making a metallic soap layer as a gliding layer on a metallized record carrier

The method of making a record carrier having a recording surface provided with a sufficiently thick gliding layer wherein the record carrier comprises a support layer, a first lacquer layer coated on one surface of said support layer, a second lacquer layer coated on the opposite surface of said support layer, and an aluminum layer formed on said first lacquer layer to provide said recording surface, said record carrier being made according to the improved steps of:

• providing in one of said first and second lacquer layers at least one admixed fatty acid,
• providing in the other of said first and second lacquer layers a metal complex comprising a metal-diketone or a metal keto-ester either of whose hydrogen form shows a distinct keto-enoltautomerism, said metal complex being admixed at approximately a stoichiometric ratio to the fatty acids in said one layer,
• forming said aluminum layer in a vacuum,
• winding said carrier into a roll to place said second lacquer layer in contact with said aluminum layer, and
• storing said wound carrier;
• thereby forming a gliding layer resulting from the reaction of said fatty acid and said metal complex.