cleaning records
- Thread starter BlackburnRaver
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Fairy liquid in warm water with a nice soft sponge and a fluffy towel to pat your babies dry! mine have always come up mint afterwards....n ive had some fair scuzzy records outta the bins 
The way I clean mine is to fill the sink half full with very luke warm water...Put the record in vertically and rotate rubbing the grooves gentle with my hands to get any dirt/greasy finger marks off. Do this both sides then dry with a towel pressed tight to the groove and with the groove. Then spray each side with Isopropyl Alcohol (about 5-6 sprays each side) this buff with a lint free cloth, again with the grooves...when you play the record through this will then lift the dirt from the groove and will generally improve playback by around 50% (as long as crackles/pops are not caused by scratches). Ed
I just use a dam duster with the Vinyl on the deck and wipe the vinyl same direction as the grooves then play the vinyl forward and backwards where needed the most,i don't like chemicals on my vinyl also i red somewhere from a vinyl engineer that has work in a pressing plant for years that all chemicals are bad for your vinyl as time goes on so thats something to think about you really only need water! all chemicals are bad at the end of the day thats why they are called chemicals!
Nice one ed
I rarely clean my records though:$
...although that's partly because I lost the cleaning cloth
Ipa is just pure alcohol Monty....it reduces static as well as cleans, and is safe for vinyl (It evaporates off the surface in a bout 40 secs)...its just stuff like turps and the like you want to avoid using on your records ha ha...Anti static is the key to nice sounding records
Mr Sheen
Spray 2-3 times on the record use 1 cloth to smooth out over the record
Play the record through with an old stylus
Clean the record slowly with 2nd cloth
Repeat for side 2
Job done
Spray 2-3 times on the record use 1 cloth to smooth out over the record
Play the record through with an old stylus
Clean the record slowly with 2nd cloth
Repeat for side 2
Job done
Mr Sheen
Spray 2-3 times on the record use 1 cloth to smooth out over the record
Play the record through with an old stylus
Clean the record slowly with 2nd cloth
Repeat for side 2
Job done
sacrelige..youd have been burned at the stake for those practises in olden times ha ha (alothough i guess just talking about mysterious black discs that play music in the dark ages, might have got you in hot water)
ha ha.. I know that people have different views on the this but I'm with ed on this ipa is the way to go, used it myself and it gets rid of all the static from the record plus any greasy marks.. definitely recommended
Your all a bunch of tarts lol
I thought it was just birds who spent a fortune on little bottles full of smell...
get the fairy out thats the best cleaning solution
I thought it was just birds who spent a fortune on little bottles full of smell...
get the fairy out thats the best cleaning solution
I read a book by Bill Brewster once and the crazy dude reckoned bloody lighter fluid! I know that its a solvent, and cleans, but the idea of someone leaning over them with a cig fills me with unbridled fear!!!!:S :S :S
One thing that lighter fluid is good for is getting the snotty glue off sleeves where labels have been..I once toched the vinyl after dealing with a label and it worked to get that off as well, the only problem is it then creates static.
That's amazing that, from using lighter fluid you can create an OSA member Roby Dail aka static
I know it's a shite joke but it made me laugh
That's amazing that, from using lighter fluid you can create an OSA member Roby Dail aka static
I know it's a shite joke but it made me laugh
The shit joke championships are wide open at the moment..but i'm not giving up on seizing the crown ha ha
