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nitty gritty cleaning question

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brad44

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Thinking about selling a nitty gritty 1 record cleaning machine. Its manual.

Do you think i could achieve the same level of cleanliness using the same brush and my homebrew fluid on a towel then running under water and hand/air dry.... or is the vacuum the key?
 
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IMO, vacuum is the key. I have no scientific or objective data to support my opinion but to me hand or air dry will not remove the dirty liquid from the record as effectively as a vacuum.
 
Makes sense..... but maybe I am doing it wrong? The vacuum doesn't get turned on until after I rinsed the dirty water off in the sink first.

I always figured the vacuum just facilitated in quicker drying.
 
brad44 said:
Thinking about selling a nitty gritty 1 record cleaning machine. Its manual.

Do you think i could achieve the same level of cleanliness using the same brush and my homebrew fluid on a towel then running under water and hand/air dry.... or is the vacuum the key?
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Yes
I washed records in the kitchen sink for years until I could afford a VPI machine
Large stainless bowel for the actual wash, kitchen sink for the rinse, good sized well scrubbed kitchen table and two ginormous very plush 100% cotton white bath towels for the drying process
If your water is good the results can be excellent, that hard rinse under an aerator will get rid of a lot of crud
BUT it was all very labor intensive
If you have decent water where you live you're good to go
That hard sink rinse is probably better than any machine in reality
Unless you're the type who frets over how many molecules you're leaving behind on your discs
 
I'd say your doing it wrong and selling the Nitty Gritty 1 would be another step backwards. Did you ever read the instruction manual for your NG RCM? I owned three Nitty Grittys and all performed very well making a significant improvement to the sound quality of my records. I would not use tap water in the cleaning and rinsing process, use distilled water and fluid designed for cleaning records.
 
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