Deep Cleaning Records With Steam?

Gregm - Do consider adding a record cleaning machine to your process. KAB Electro Acoustics offers a manual "machine" the EV-1 that you use with your home vacuum cleaner. It is vry affordable (<$200). Sucking "gunk" out of the grooves after steaming should help eliminate what you are collecting on your stylus.

Gregm is you are interested in a EV-1 i have one for sale. If you would like it get in touch.

Do any of you have any sources for pure water. I have done some research on line and it seems that ultra pure h2o can be rather expensive. I went through a 16oz bottle of Walkers water for 21 lps.

Not trying to get to crazy with this but after searching water here on audiogon several have reported differences in there lp play back by what water they used to steam with.

After hearing several more of my steam cleaned lps its looking like starting with my favorites, all will have to be steamed. The clarity and absolute full sound i am hearing is startling. There is certainly no denying the audible improvements with steamed vinyl.

I say thanks again Crem 1

I have been using and touting R/O water. It's purer than distilled, which is plenty good enough. Buy it at the tropical fish store for fifty cents a gallon. You will not need any expensive record cleaning fluids, if you use R/O. Trust me.

You guys are choking me up ... I have never felt more honored that to know I have made brothers/sisters around the country/world that are enjoying there record collections more because of steam cleaning. Really, after attempting to share my ideas for sooo long and now to find so many who are learing to re-love there record collections... Money doesn't mean a thang ... Lets keep it going, Charlie