Spin-Clean is...
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Luis.correia
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It's easier. Also with hand washing people end up using other type of solution.
Balifly
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I've never hand washed an album in the sink but I have cleaned them using an array of brushes, paint pads and micro fiber towels. I just received a Spin Clean for Christmas and I have cleaned about 20 albums with it so far. I would have to say it works much better than the way I used to clean them. It's much more convenient to use. Surface noise is greatly reduced. The towels they give you seem kinda cheesy but they work better than the micro fiber ones I had been using. My only complaint is that sometimes the rollers want to walk up a bit when spinning the LP, some spin better than others, it depends on how smooth the edge of the album is.
El Pee
Super Member
Exactly!
I use my spinclean as just another stage in my cleaning ritual. They're pretty effective as a standalone unit, but incorporating the econowand that hi*ball was making awhile back further increased the cleanliness and pleasure of vinyl in this house. While hi*ball isn't making these anymore, there are some similar on that auction site.
Discussed in this thread is about everything we have on cleaning vinyl.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....of-fact-fiction-and-collective-wisdom.633407/
Discussed in this thread is about everything we have on cleaning vinyl.
http://audiokarma.org/forums/index....of-fact-fiction-and-collective-wisdom.633407/
What he said!
vinowino
Addicted Member
This is an excellent method. Same principle as Spinclean.
I found that if I let the record sit for a minute then revolve again, it would "soak" out any grime better.
I used this Knosti setup for years . It comes with just one trough, I bought a second trough that I filled with distilled water as a rinse.
However, I treated myself to this a few years ago. I can clean and dry and put record away within minutes.
Always put back into a new, quality, inner sleeve.
I found that if I let the record sit for a minute then revolve again, it would "soak" out any grime better.
I used this Knosti setup for years . It comes with just one trough, I bought a second trough that I filled with distilled water as a rinse.
However, I treated myself to this a few years ago. I can clean and dry and put record away within minutes.
Always put back into a new, quality, inner sleeve.
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saggy
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I always make sure the housing for the rollers is cleaned out. Dirt/grime settles in the trough and creates a friction that causes the rollers to walk.
GPJeff
Super Member
So did I. Spin Clean ran a special on the brown "Classic" unit for $49 in December 2016 so I bought an extra for the rinse cycle. I was using a quirt bottle.
Yesterday I cleaned around 50 albums with my Spin Clean, so easy to use!
It cleans deeper in the grooves than hand washing. I had a few records that looked mint but had a lot of pops when played. After cleaning them several times with my Spin Clean, I was able to remove a lot of the surface noise. I found that using a drop or two of Dawn detergent helps clean the noisier records better than the Spin Clean fluid. I clean them and then rinse them off under the kitchen faucet to remove any soap residue. If you listen to a lot of records, a Spin Clean is essential IMO.
nkorah
Active Member
HI,
I've made a very thorough reserch of different record cleaning methods, from Doing-It-by-Hand to TOTL vacume machines. It included both listning and checking the cleaned records under a scope.
The spinning machines were the most efficient, and certainly most cost eficient way to clean records - easy and quick to clean records without doing damage to either records or labels. Records turn our cleaner than "handworked", and just as clean as those cleaned by multiple-thousends-dollars, TOTL vacume machines.
Mind that, Just as with the vacumes, the cleaning process is much more elaborated than advertise, and one needs quite a few rounds of turning the records, both ways, both in cleaning solution and in distilled woter - for it to be "almost totaly clean" - which is the best I have managed, cleaning VERY dirty records, using any method
I've made a very thorough reserch of different record cleaning methods, from Doing-It-by-Hand to TOTL vacume machines. It included both listning and checking the cleaned records under a scope.
The spinning machines were the most efficient, and certainly most cost eficient way to clean records - easy and quick to clean records without doing damage to either records or labels. Records turn our cleaner than "handworked", and just as clean as those cleaned by multiple-thousends-dollars, TOTL vacume machines.
Mind that, Just as with the vacumes, the cleaning process is much more elaborated than advertise, and one needs quite a few rounds of turning the records, both ways, both in cleaning solution and in distilled woter - for it to be "almost totaly clean" - which is the best I have managed, cleaning VERY dirty records, using any method
ETLS
metacarpophalangealcranium
HI,
I've made a very thorough reserch of different record cleaning methods, from Doing-It-by-Hand to TOTL vacume machines. It included both listning and checking the cleaned records under a scope.
The spinning machines were the most efficient, and certainly most cost eficient way to clean records - easy and quick to clean records without doing damage to either records or labels. Records turn our cleaner than "handworked", and just as clean as those cleaned by multiple-thousends-dollars, TOTL vacume machines.
Mind that, Just as with the vacumes, the cleaning process is much more elaborated than advertise, and one needs quite a few rounds of turning the records, both ways, both in cleaning solution and in distilled woter - for it to be "almost totaly clean" - which is the best I have managed, cleaning VERY dirty records, using any method
A hands free spin clean.
