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Homemade record cleaner

I believe that an RCM can be the most important equipment component upgrade you can make in your Hi-Fi system.

I messed with various home-mixed fluids and am using Disc Doctor fluid and brushes at present. I like them best so far but I am attempting (slowly) to try them all and decide what I think. (I will say that brushes and "scrubbing" technics differ and are best varied due to what is being cleaned and its condition.)

(I am a rinser, too - really no choice with the level of concentration of the Disc Doctor fluid. I use steam distilled water and an extra (clean) brush.)

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Thanks for the reports and pictures, some interesting work here.

I think a vacuum is a mandatory component in cleaning LPs.

+ 1 for following the RCM cleaning cycle with a rinse cycle using distilled water.
 
loneraider said:
The technics turntable i use i got from a flea market 4 $10 because it turns really slow ,speeds up then slows down ,no good for playing records but the direct drive does help . I built this system for about $30 dollars ,i already had the shop vac ,the tube cost me $3.00 bucks and i'm pretty happy with the way it cleans records....
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The reason it speeds up and slows down is Because you need to clean the speed pots. Almost every one of those tables from that time period have that problem. I have a 1500 and it did they same thing till i cleaned the pots.
Very easy thing to do.
Take off the bottom and there right there in plan site. spray with some good contact cleaner work the pots back and forth, you may need to do it a couple of times as i had to on mine.
Works great now.
 
hi IronMan ! maybe both !!! a sighting ?? or a hearing ?? in my ears .....
i hope Yoko don´t be a sighting for now !!!!!!!!!!!!! he he
don`t worry kyoko.........
 
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