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Spin Clean Record Washer?

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I'm shopping for vinyl cleaning products and I'm wondering if the spin-clean is a good route.

Are there any 'must-have' cleaning products for vinyl records?
 
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It does a good job, but has its limitations. Lacking a vacuum is the big limitation.

It is also a pretty cheap piece of plastic. Although cheaply constructed, it is an out of the box solution for cleaning records fairly effectively.

Short of a DIY or more expensive RCM, I highly recommend the spinclean.
 
Just make sure if you get a Spinclean you follow the directions. And always take the felt brushes out of the machine when not in use or they will rot.
 
Spion Clean Record Washer

IMO you get what you pay for, the Spin Clean is adequate for some people, for me its not adequate and I chose a VPI 16.5 rcm and the results show, dead quiet/clean lps. This is 2010 and if your not useing a rcm your in the dark/dirty ages of vinyl.
 
Not perfect, but well worth the money. If you have thousands of Lps to clean buy an RCM. If not the Spinclean will do a decent job for a low price.

Dave
 
majick47 said:
IMO you get what you pay for, the Spin Clean is adequate for some people, for me its not adequate and I chose a VPI 16.5 rcm and the results show, dead quiet/clean lps. This is 2010 and if your not useing a rcm your in the dark/dirty ages of vinyl.
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A whole lot of us don't have $400, $600 or even $1,000 for a full-blown RCM. Though I would LOVE to have one. In the meantime, $159 for a KAB EV-1 is far more doable. You get the vacuum ability without the ridiculous price. Maybe not quite as good as a $550 VPI. But better than a Spin Clean, I'd think.
 
I think ill hang in the dark ages for a bit with money in my pocket. Not being sarcastic, just saying. I would rather spend that money on records or equipment. unless i was rich, then that changes things. lol
 
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I have a spin clean and I find the results to be quite decent although not a great deal different from my old by hand method. Principal difference in my experience is time - get a lot more done with the spin clean.

My 2 cents.
 
My spin clean is great, it saves time and $$$ if you have lots of used vinyl.

A word of caution, before you use it the first time wash the brushes well with some Dawn detergent (use a soft clean toothbrush to scrub). My first batch of spin-cleaned vinyl came out loaded with noise in the grooves - many that were quiet players came out all crackly-sounding. After about 200 records the Spin Clean now works great, cleans 'em up quietly every time. I wish I had cleaned the brushes first, though, so I didn't have to go back and re-clean the first 50.
 
What the above poster said is a good point. The same exact thing happened to me. Now my records are very quiet.
 
ssmith3046 said:
No love for the SC. So far I've cleaned around 400 albums using mine with great results.
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another +1 it has done an excellent job most of my albums are 90-95% quieter, the lowest I've gotten is like 75%-80%, though those albums are form the early mid 60's and to tell the truth I'm fine with that. Though in the near future I may upgrade to a KAB EV-1.
 
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