Record Cleaning Machines

Hi Darren,

interesting post! I have a VPI 16.5 on order (website says normally delivered in 2-3 days). Customer service telephoned me (brownie points) to say they are waiting for supply and I should get the machine this week

I have decided to go the machine route, and I freely admit that I chose on price, as I now have several hundred LPs, 78s and 45s. A lot of them have come from charity shops, many are new and some are second hand sourced from dealers. A lot of them are obviously quite dirty and although I have been cleaning manually up till now, I do not feel the cleaning is adequate even after two or three cleans. I use L'Art du Son and lab grade distilled water for manual cleaning with the Clearaudio brush.

I now have some Keith Monks liquids which I am going to try, expensive I know so we'll see!

I'll let you know if the machine does not turn up this week, you may get another customer for the Moth!

Regards

Les

ABPest wrote: How many times can you use the fluid, or is it 1 LP only then new fluid?   Do you need to use any thing else such as antistat after washing? Adrian.

Hi Adrian,

it's one shot per side but the amount required is quite small. It shouldn't be necessary to use an antistat treatment after cleaning as you are just putting a layer of 'fuzz' back onto the record. Better to use a decent antistat brush before playing each side of a record. Michael Fremer warns to use the lightest of pressure on the brush as the record turns underneath it, otherwise there is the possibility of pushing any freshly acquired dust into the grooves of your just cleaned record!

I also put all of my freshly cleaned records into a MOFI antistat sleeve.

Regards

Les