For those of you who use or have used a Spin-Clean machine, do you think the effectiveness of its cleaning is better than, equal to, or poorer than hand washing? Is its main advantage the ease of cleaning or the quality of cleaning?
Thanks,
Bob
Much easier, good cleaning solution - no complaints with this product!
What he said!Much easier, good cleaning solution - no complaints with this product!
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.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.
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.I picked up another spin clean to rinse the record off with.
Yet to use both.
Winter is here & I may have time.
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