why do you need a machine to clean records?

[DougMac]

Hobby Box

What is a hobby box? Pics?

Pics coming. This is a hobby (or project) box. It can either be a small box made of plastic or metal. When I was a kid, I was always building little projects with them. I miss the time you could scoot down to the local electronics store and buy some resistors, capacitors, transistors, etc. and build something based on plans you found in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics.

 

[spideyjack]

You're onto something interesting with that design. I like the way you tethered the wand to the spindle.

I have a manual cleaning and vacuuming system I wrote about (with pictures) here:
http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=192217

But here's a photo from it of the schnozzles i made (one for wash and one for rinse). I cut the slits the exact width of LP grooves and about 1/4 inch wide to let air in. I lined to two sides of the slit with strips of disposable pint pads available at the hardware store for under $3. I used 2-sided Scotch tape which holds them firmly, but still allows me to peel them off and replace them when they get dirty. I cut the slots with a putty knife heated over a plumbers torch, BTW.

The advantage to using paint pads instead of fabric is that they hold very little moisture and that's good IMO because I would think wet fabric would get wet and lay the water back down on the record.

I figure I want the vacuum to be strong enough to completely dry the LP in two revolutions by actually lifting the water off the LP and not simply evaporating it by passing air over it.

I followed Brett A's recipe and it works great! Cheap too!

 

[js1138]

I've now tried the paint spreader version. Is there a way to buy the paint spreader without a plastic backing?

while at the hardware I saw nylon stocking material in the form of a bank holdup mask. I think it might have been to protect your head and hair from spray paint, rather than as a holdup mask, but it looked a lot more rugged than Leggs. I'll try that also.

I really believe my contribution to this is anchoring the wand to the spindle. Regardless of what other features work, that's a keeper. But before I go further, I'm going to get some appropriate lightweight flexible tubing to go to the vacuum.