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Eyeglass Cleaning Cloth to Wipe Records?

mozcho

mozcho

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I have accumulated many eyeglass cleaning cloth over the years, before throwing them away, I'm just wondering if they are good to wipe on vinyl records? Are they lint-free? Have anyone tried this before?
 
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Hi.
A used one is a big no because the oils accumulated, But new ones can be. I use them to clean the records before play, still velvet my favorite, but lens cloth little damp remove the static.

Cheers from Fla.
Andre.
 
Andre Garcia said:
Hi.
A used one is a big no because the oils accumulated, But new ones can be. I use them to clean the records before play, still velvet my favorite, but lens cloth little damp remove the static.

Cheers from Fla.
Andre.
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yeah i have new and unsed ones. velvet: brush, you mean?
 
You will just move the dust around and wipe it into the grooves. Use a real record cleaning brush, like a Discwasher, that will get into the grooves and remove the dust.
 
I assume we're talking about the common microfiber cloths? They probably won't get into the grooves well, but are great for cleaning camera lenses and such. If they get dirty, just wash 'em.
 
mozcho said:
yeah i have new and unsed ones. velvet: brush, you mean?
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Hi,
Velvet cloth. You can buy at hobby lobby or any other.
I stick one piece on a lint roller and use another lint roller to clean the velvet.
So far this is what I use to clean my records before play.
If the lint roller left microscopic glue residues, I guess no, but always will be someone that say yes. Again, so far is working excellent for me.
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Cheers from Fla.
Andre.
 
You’ll clean the record “peaks”, and jam all of the dust into the “valleys”. The valleys are where all of the musicians hang out!
 
I use these for engine assembly work, never considered using them for cleaning/drying records
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ConradH said:
I assume we're talking about the common microfiber cloths? They probably won't get into the grooves well, but are great for cleaning camera lenses and such. If they get dirty, just wash 'em.
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You'd be surprised what "doesn't" get into the grooves.

But with any cloth, at what point will you condemn its use and reach for another? Once, 50 times, or ?

I will agree with other posters, that a simple vintage Discwasher or Parastat Brush would be superior to any towel-cloth.

For simple dusting, acquire a small 1oz Plastic Dispenser Bottle, from perhaps a Beauty Supply Shop, fill it with Distilled Water.

With the Discwasher Brush, you apply a few drops of Water to its leading edge and spread with the edge of the bottle is all.

As you use it on the Record, and the platter rotates, either motor driven, or spun by hand, you "rock" the brush, and the fibers help pick up dusts-caca. And if bad, yeah, you will see what it picked up. and when you then look at the record, you see it will now look in "playable shape". And help your Stylus-Cartridge from riding through all that "Doody".

The Discwasher and Parastat type Brushes can be periodically cleaned.

I'm not going to lie, I came up through the ranks, and I used such above for many years, and this is my findings.

Some of these records I have are 30-40-45 or more years old, yeah, that hI bought them myself brand new that long back. And that so many years later, they play superbly.

Te Discwasher evidently didn't seem to cause any significant degradation, or damage.

I did graduate over the last 20 years with different products-methods, I still have 2 vintage Discwashers, a couple types of Parsastats, some Watts Jobs, etc etc. And they'll go with me to the grave.

Beware about buying Discwashers today, there are I understand some newer clones which are said to be pretty crappy, and they are not the real deal.

I believe I still have my original Discwasher in brown woodgrain cardbord box from 40 years back. Still works like it did when I bought it! LOL
 
Assuming the record has already been cleaned by RCM or UC a Discwasher or carbon fiber brush would be an appropriate tool to remove dust prior to play not an eye glass cloth. Will repeat what Mark said re the Discwasher, get a vintage one made in USA not a counterfeit from the land of junk.
 
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There's 1000's of pages here about record cleaning, would take you the next 10 years to read all!
Homework, have to sift, then find a path, your path, which works best for you!

But I'll share a "Son of Svengoolie" story about my buddy down in Florida, who has about 4000 LPs, and probably 600 45's!

He's a DJ, Plays the drums-congas-bongoes, etc, a regular "Santana on Wheels"!

Even if I handed him $5000.00 to go buy a Clearaudio Matrix Machine, the fluids, brushes-etc, and in his case, do you really want to spend the next 2-3 years cleaning records!? LOL

I bought him some 1-step cleaners once, so those really nasty ones you might have to "Kitchen Sink" that baby.
 
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