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Lotus cleaning system oxygenated water for LP's?

Anyone with a Tersano Lotus water cleaning/treatment system ever tried cleaning LP's with it? The concept is they add a third oygen molecule to water, and the water becomes a super cleaning agent for about 15 minutes. They claim it cleans much better and faster than Clorox, and blog postings seem to back this up, stating stains that harsh chemical cleaners wouldn't take out were dissolved by the Lotus. This is the cleaning system I'm talking about, not the drinking water system, as that unit de oxygenates the water afterwards for drinking.

The system has a sensor for contaminants to tell you when the fruit or veggies are fully clean. I wonder as a test if an LP were vertically rotated through the water, would the sensor indicate it was eventualy free of contaminates. Of course I was more thinking of using it in a VPI, and vacuuming off the water afterwards. The creator of the unit does state that ozone (O3) can be tough on some plastics and rubber, but the LP would not be my concern, since it would be in contact only once for a short time, but rather the plastic parts of the VPI machine. The inventor has indicated they will test materials that users suggest. I haven't contacted them yet about their thoughts on LP vinyl, I figured it might be good to get some ideas from this forum to querry them about.

Thoughts?
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pbb
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What is wrong with dry cleanig lps with a carbon brush and calling it a day? Wet cleaning probably creates more problems than it solves. My comments apply to new vinyl. I have no idea hat one has to go through with grungy old used vinyl.
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nrchy
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I just got some new cleaning fluid at RMAF that uses ultra pure water for a third, or rinse stage. I'm curious though about how an extra oxygenated water would do, if anything. A third, or odd numbered oxygen molecule would make it a free radical, wouldn't it?

New vinyl is often the dirtiest of all especially with the new mold-releases used. Dry brushing as always, does nothing to eliminate them. Pbb, true to form is wrong again...

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inpepinnovations
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Huh, a third O2 molecule to water? I thought water had only one oxygen ATOM and that hydrogen peroxide had two ATOMS, so I was wondering how some one comes up with a third MOLECULE of oxygen??

Even oxygenating water doesn't introduce a third molecule, just a second molecule of oxygen to the first molecule of water.

NRCHY, I think that wet cleaning of new vinyl is not any better than dry cleaning, since the 'dirt' products to which you refer aren't water soluble.
dougdeacon
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"Wet" cleaning doesn't necessarily imply cleaning only with water. Nrchy made it clear water was the 3rd step in a multistep process.

The non-water soluble contaminants on new vinyl are removable with water-based solutions containing other active ingredients. The final pure water rinse simply removes trace residues of those cleaning solutions, and perhaps "dirt" that was loosened by them but not quite removed.

IOW, I agree with Nrchy.
narrod
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I'm convinced anyone who feels dry cleaning is as effective
as wet cleaning has never taken the time to listen and compare. Conversely, I've never known anyone who used a wet cleaning system that ever went back to simple dry brushing. New records, in my experience, benefit significantly from being wet cleaned.

This is an old argument. I'm not sure why I'm even responding. People believe what they believe and many are not open to having that belief challenged.
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