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Making my own record washer

kaplang

kaplang

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I am sure this is not new to the forum but I am building a record washer. The picture posted is of the things I have collected so far. The 6 inch vinyl wheel will be epoxied to the grinding wheel on center and eventually covered with cork for the platter. The grinding wheel is very flat and has the necessary weight. I just hope it does not warp over time. The wheel will be mounted to the motor using the pictured mount.

The things I still need to do are.

1. Build a box ( water proof) to hold everything.
2. make some kind of a 3 position switch that can turn on\off and reverse polarity so the DC motor can go clockwise and counter clockwise. Any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated.

3.Build an arm that can be raised and lowered and goes across the platter . This is the arm that will interface with the vacuum to remove the cleaning solution after the initial cleaning. I may buy one from VPI but I want to see what I can come up with on my own first. Any suggestions would also be appreciated.

The initial washing process will be by hand with a brush and solution with the platter spinning clockwise and then counter clockwise. Then the vacuum arm lowered and vacuum turned on to remove the wet.

That is my plan.

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I don't know if you have programming experience, but www.Phidgets.com makes some programmable circuit boards that will let you manipulate a DC motor in the way you want. This might add to the whole problem of the thing needing to be waterproof, but I just thought I would throw it out there.
 
I will look into this but I was thinking mechanical on the switch if that is possible.

Thanks for the suggestion
 
However, I'm not quite sure what you could do as far as building an arm. Maybe someone else will chime in about that.
 
Don't worry too much about waterproofing the electrical stuff, unless you're planning to pour buckets of water on there.

You might find that shop vac to be too powerful.
 
Sam Cogley said:
Don't worry too much about waterproofing the electrical stuff, unless you're planning to pour buckets of water on there.

You might find that shop vac to be too powerful.
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Thanks for your input

It's not the electrics I am concerned about. It's the top where the record will spin and cleaning solution applied. I don't want the wood to rot or warp over time so I need it to be sealed in some way. I am considering lining it with some thin Plexiglas cut to size at my local plastic store or may be apply verithane

I can compensate for the shop vac if it is to powerful
 
There have been a number of DIY RCM's published on AK, some powered some not.

here is My manual version, and I also used a small shop vac and a different approach to the to the vacuumed wand. After I built that “wand” I found Wally World had a fairly small upholstery attachment that would probably be easier to mod for this.
 
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