Record cleaning

[Ruffenuff]

Someone pointed out a record cleaner to me the other day...where you spin it in fluid etc.

Never made me think about it before, but most my tunes are 25/30 years old , I've done sit loads of party's and some club with them ..bound to have gunk on them.

Has anyone used/got one....did it make any difference?

 

[chinatownswhite]

I brought one quite a few yrs back, even though it wasnt high end it deffo made a differance.
I also brought new inner sleeves.

This is the one I brought, it is time consuming though.

Disco-Antistat Vinyl Cleaning Machine From Knosti

Offering a low-cost, manual vinyl cleaning solution, Paul Rigby readies his records for a quick wash and brush up Blimey, we vinyl fans have a complex relationship with our records. Just look at one aspect of the relationship, cleaning the darned things. There are a host, a gamut of methods to...

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[Ruffenuff]

Yeah I can imagine it's a chore.

Just outta interest...did a load of gunk come off?

 

[chinatownswhite]

Yeah I can imagine it's a chore.

Just outta interest...did a load of gunk come off?

Yeah some of them were really bad, it left them looking very fresh, the brushes really got into the grooves.

 

[siman91]

I clean mine as I re-record them, the cleaning is to an extremely high standard and I am able to take a really dirty record and return it back better than new.

I use a ultrasonic bath (which is great for loosening up dirt). Cloth dry and clean with my Loricraft which vacs the mud out of the grooves really well. Was never a fan of ultrasonic on its own but as a pre wash it is bloody amazing.

it is an expensive set up but paid for itself many times over with the occasional £50 collections dragged out of garden sheds etc which once cleaned are very presentable and play really well.

Any cleaning is usually better than none.

 

[stetheboro]

+1 on an ultrasonic cleaner.