moonphish
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hello all, just wanted to extent a big warm thanks for all of your kind replies and for creating this great site. I really appreciate it! I asked about record cleaning techniques, wanted to restate my question and hope you don't mind. I've scoured the internet ad-nauseum reading about a gillion record cleaning techniques and have spoken to a few of the so called experts, Its funny how not many people seem to agree on a good technique and some of them, as you know, are just ridiculous (sand paper, culinary herbs...etc...)
So here is what I did with my first ~450 records and would sure appreciate some feedback:
I used Vinyl Doctor cleaner and the felt pads that he or MOFI sell. I put the records on a bamboo lazy Susan that I got at at Ikia with a cork 12" mat for putting plants on that I got at Home Depot. I went over them with cleaning solution and the pad for a few revolutions then hit them with the dish sprayer in my sink with a good strong spray and did a final rinsing with distilled water, gently dried them with a lint free cloth and, after they're dry, went over them with the old school Disk Washer and some lab grade purified water from the chemistry lab at Webster University for quite a few revolutions.
Two things: I have since switched to Tergitol cleaning solution which is what the Library of Congress uses but have not yet tried it. The guy who sent me a free tube of it told me to stop using tap water at all and use one of those sprayers for weed killer and distilled water because he said "the contaminants in tap water adhere to the vinyl and not even an additional rinse with distilled will remove it". I'm not sure If I buy into that but I'll call the chemistry dept. tomorrow and see if they have an opinion.
Note: I know several people have told me to get the vacuum attachment and I've been resistant to that because it just seems like a huge hassle.
Other solutions I've read good reviews on are:
ITM-8 From Groovy Hi Fi
Aivs formula15 32 oz. recommended by Jim Pendleton, Osage Audio who I spoke to
MOFI enzymatic cleaner
L’Art Du Son
I'm certainly trying, thanks!!!
So here is what I did with my first ~450 records and would sure appreciate some feedback:
I used Vinyl Doctor cleaner and the felt pads that he or MOFI sell. I put the records on a bamboo lazy Susan that I got at at Ikia with a cork 12" mat for putting plants on that I got at Home Depot. I went over them with cleaning solution and the pad for a few revolutions then hit them with the dish sprayer in my sink with a good strong spray and did a final rinsing with distilled water, gently dried them with a lint free cloth and, after they're dry, went over them with the old school Disk Washer and some lab grade purified water from the chemistry lab at Webster University for quite a few revolutions.
Two things: I have since switched to Tergitol cleaning solution which is what the Library of Congress uses but have not yet tried it. The guy who sent me a free tube of it told me to stop using tap water at all and use one of those sprayers for weed killer and distilled water because he said "the contaminants in tap water adhere to the vinyl and not even an additional rinse with distilled will remove it". I'm not sure If I buy into that but I'll call the chemistry dept. tomorrow and see if they have an opinion.
Note: I know several people have told me to get the vacuum attachment and I've been resistant to that because it just seems like a huge hassle.
Other solutions I've read good reviews on are:
ITM-8 From Groovy Hi Fi
Aivs formula15 32 oz. recommended by Jim Pendleton, Osage Audio who I spoke to
MOFI enzymatic cleaner
L’Art Du Son
I'm certainly trying, thanks!!!
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