Best Record Cleaning Fluid

mijostyn

... stick with your distilled water and ultrasound. But you'd better be careful because according to Mr Kirmuss if you use the wrong frequency you could damage your record!

My LPs have suffered no damage at all. I've actually tested the US cleaning method: I subjected two different LPs  to a 30-min cleaning cycle, which is much, much longer than I use in practice. I then compared recorded waveforms (one made before cleaning, the other after) and found no difference at all.

A record will take several thousand pounds per square inch of stylus trying to dig into it at a rake angle of 20 degrees but it can't handle ultrasonic water bubbles?

At 20 degrees, you're confusing "rake angle" (SRA) with VTA. VTA would commonly be around 20 degrees; SRA would be about 90 degrees.

This notion that a stylus exerts "several thousand pounds per square inch" has been often repeated, but I've never seen any math to support it. It would be tricky to calculate, because not all of the VTF is applied to the stylus tip - some of it is transferred from the sides of the stylus onto the groove wall.

Some others believe that there is extraordinary heat generated at the stylus tip. I've never seen any documentation to support that, either. Measurements I've made with an infrared thermometer don't support the claim.

Sorry, but there are many additives used when formulating the pvc resin pellets for molding vinyl records, including plasticizers. These are not applied to the stampers, they are formulated when making the pellets for vinyl records.

Read here: https://www.vinylengine.com/turntable_forum/viewtopic.php?t=99579

Quote: “Most of the added (non-polymer) plasticizers are solvent soluble. Studies by preservationists on PVC artifacts has shown plasticizer extraction with solvents, including alcohol (at concentrations 60% and higher) *6. Hence, it is reasonable to keep alcohol (and other solvent) concentrations as low as possible in cleaning solutions.”

voiceofvinyl, that is exactly the thread I commented on before. It is quoting old patent applications. None of that stuff is used in the commercial industry. Look at the comments below in that thread. It is all a big joke.
The only stuff in PVC pellets is PVC and Carbon Black. If there were other additives you would be able to find 1000 threads on line about what that stuff is and you can't because I just spent an hour looking to make sure I was not FOS. You also did not read my comment on the Tergitol.
Tergitol is an alcohol! All the record cleaning companies want you to know alcohol is bad for your records so you will buy their stuff. Don't fall for it. 
Cleeds, It is Mr Kirmuss who says that not me. Ultrasound is perfectly safe. Look at your stylus carefully from the side. If you have not bent your cantilever and your tonearm is parallel to the record your stylus vertical axis will be angled around 20 degrees with the tip pointed back towards the tonearm bearing. If it is not I would send it back and ask for a refund.
It is angled like that because that is the angle the cutting chisel makes. 
As for the pressure a stylus exerts on the record that is simple math. You just have to know the combined area of the two contact patches. Use a weight of 2 grams then just convert the whole mess into pounds per square inch. Why don't you figure it out for us. As to whether of not vinyl goes liquid at that pressure I sort of doubt it. As you suggest friction and pressure generate heat. But I know of no infrared thermometer with resolution high enough to read the contact patch of a phonograph stylus.
At any rate the vinyl recovers and the wear rate under clean conditions is pretty slow all things considered.