Whats best for vinyl record cleaning

[camcroft]

Distilled or Deionised water. Thanks

 

[daytona600]

Cyro Treated pure mountain spring water fetched by young virgin nymphs filtered with gold plated linen
or Distilled water

 

[camcroft]

Cyro Treated pure mountain spring water fetched by young virgin nymphs filtered with gold plated linen
or Distilled water

Where is the first one available from.

 

[jamesrfisher]

Cyro Treated pure mountain spring water fetched by young virgin nymphs filtered with gold plated linen
or Distilled water

You are Russ Andrews and I claim my £50

 

[Vincent Kars]

No water, use Wood glue!

 

[Al ears]

Cyro Treated pure mountain spring water fetched by young virgin nymphs filtered with gold plated linen
or Distilled water

It has to be Welsh spring water...... 🙂

 

[daytona600]

Where is the first one available from.

www.CyroTreatedpuremountainspringwaterfetchedbyyoungvirginnymphs.co.uk

 

[Rui]

destiled water, no doubt of it ,as wood glue doesn´t clean them perfect as i saw a friend of mine doing it to a old Lp he has that was forgoten above a piece of furniture when a party happened and i still have the mint cover of that record from Prince & the Revolution, when of the single "Kiss", late 80´s, i remenber the song playing that night but never again he found the record only later when changing that piece of furniture i notice a record was there, that´s why nobody but a older friend touches my stereo equipment in any of my party´s , it feels old as i think young men don´t get together in their houses with lot´s of alcohol and other type of drugs as the alcohol we provide tastes like water and if you light a cigar it seems the cigar smoke tastes of fruit but engeniers never could drop the level of methanol to legal limits and it´s a drink that doesn´t let you drunk but high with a happy feeling , it´s only a shame that in 40 years of research the tradicional drink never was putted for sale, but i drift a litle as music was played for one or three nights in a row, and i miss those days, not that they stoped to happen but kind of a geriatric feel when looking to eachothers faces some we met when 4 years old, girls or boys but since ever we clean records with a non abrasive soap and with destiled water shoot through a compressor so it could arrive to the deepest grooves but that was then now it´s two machines , a laboratory ultrasound cleaner with a engine that rotates the Lp´s also a based on water cleaner than let it dry and perfect they stay, using the two diferent methods cleans completelly any record, using only one of them would never clean it perfect.
About mountain spring water it contains particles that can only be removed by destilation of the water, as i worked in a laboratory i destlied water and had a expensive ultrasounds machine when making culutres of bacterial life on blood serum, or vegetal deseases from insects or bacterial also origin, to after clean the material ,never ever i thought that i would use all that equipment to clean records

 

[daytona600]

Water or Glue
if you can drink it , you can clean your records with it

 

[Rui]

Water or Glue
if you can drink it , you can clean your records with it

No , destiled water isn´t for drinking , all that comes with water is out after destiled, like other particles that change from region to region , where i live there´s a high amount of limestone compared to other regions in my country , as all other minerals do are in excessive amount , that leaves residues in the record after dried, the reason why we use destlied water, i can give the example of washing machine for clothes in the back shows the quantity of detergent to put in a wash, in my region you have to put double the quantity of detergent due to the water composition, so regular water leaves a lot of minerals on the record after cleaned like white spots as an example, destlied water when dried leaves nothing.
About glue in theory it should work but depends on the glue as every litle spot in a groove isn´t filled with glue ,allthough most of it does come out but there are a lot of residual dirtness by using glue and it works just not at a 100% of efectiveness, the reason why i use two machines with diferent cleaning types ,it works better this way, if not very dirty also depends of the type of dirt in the record to be more easy to clean , there´s more to it but i think this way it´s understandable

 

[camcroft]

No , destiled water isn´t for drinking , all that comes with water is out after destiled, like other particles that change from region to region , where i live there´s a high amount of limestone compared to other regions in my country , as all other minerals do are in excessive amount , that leaves residues in the record after dried, the reason why we use destlied water, i can give the example of washing machine for clothes in the back shows the quantity of detergent to put in a wash, in my region you have to put double the quantity of detergent due to the water composition, so regular water leaves a lot of minerals on the record after cleaned like white spots as an example, destlied water when dried leaves nothing.
About glue in theory it should work but depends on the glue as every litle spot in a groove isn´t filled with glue ,allthough most of it does come out but there are a lot of residual dirtness by using glue and it works just not at a 100% of efectiveness, the reason why i use two machines with diferent cleaning types ,it works better this way, if not very dirty also depends of the type of dirt in the record to be more easy to clean , there´s more to it but i think this way it´s understandable

Which two machines do you use.

 

[nopiano]

I’ve been buying LPs since I was about 15, and that’s a long time ago. I realise when reading your post, I’ve never cleaned any of them with liquid, except once there was a little ‘splodge’ mark that ticked, and I used a drop of isopropyl alcohol (which I used for tape heads and styli) on a stylus brush to remove it.

If I had a wet cleaning machine - which I’ve often been tempted by, but never succumbed - I’d use whatever they recommended.

I believe there’s a popular ‘recipe’ comprising distilled water, alcohol, and wetting agent. Some good articles here…

Surfactant: Cleaning Your Vinyl, A Buyer’s Guide

One of the most important tools in the armoury of the vinyl fan, Paul Rigby asks what they are, why they’re important in terms of vinyl cleaning and which surfactants you should buy I’ve been testing and using vinyl cleaning products for well, decades. During that time, I have progressed from...

theaudiophileman.com

And this, from the Australian edition of WHF…

I tested 3 vinyl record cleaning systems – and the results were both revelatory and depressing

A clean-looking record is nice, but a clean-sounding one is what really interests me

www.whathifi.com

 

[Rui]

Which two machines do you use.

a ultrasound machine and a water based cleaning machine both give a perfect result, but good ones not those at 100€ each

 

[daytona600]

Totally pointless buying records without cleaning them on a RCM
Records sound better
Stylus last 25/50% longer
Banish ticks , pops & static
Lower record wear
Total no brainer & best upgrade you will ever make if you play vinyl

 

[camcroft]

Totally pointless buying records without cleaning them on a RCM
Records sound better
Stylus last 25/50% longer
Banish ticks , pops & static
Lower record wear

What do you use to clean yours? Have you tried www.CyroTreatedpuremountainspringwaterfetchedbyyoungvirginnymphs.co.uk

 

[daytona600]

What do you use to clean yours
KL Audio + CyroTreatedpuremountainspringwaterfetchedbyyoungvirginnymphs

 

[camcroft]

What do you use to clean yours
KL Audio + CyroTreatedpuremountainspringwaterfetchedbyyoungvirginnymphs


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Very nice machine. so the www.CyroTreatedpuremountainspringwaterfetchedbyyoungvirginnymphs.co.uk definately does work then.