Notice that the calculation in the record cleaning book are flawed as it goes from mass/weight to thickness without including density/specific gravity (6/0.5x12, particularly at value around 1 or 1/1=1). That's why those calculations are off by a factor of around 20K. I provided the back of the envelope math in a previous post. No need to sweat a few percent here or there when we are talking four orders of magnitude, give or take.
The calculations are not off by a factor of 20k. They are off by a factor of 10, and this was delineated in these posts:

