New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning


Purchased a cheap $199.00 stainless steel digital ultrasonic cleaner with a very nice record cleaning attachment off Amazon and I am having a blast.

This thing is heated, has a timer and an electric motor to rotate the records in the US tank. It is a 6L unit and it is made in China. Seems well built and it cleans records like a much more expensive machine.

I have cleaned a half dozen albums that are 40 plus years old and have only been cleaned with vacuuming machines and this thing is great. The albums I have cleaned sound darn near new and my wife thought I bought another new cartridge or phono pre-amp.

Can not recommend this type of cleaning system enough.

Rediscover those old albums.. if this thing lasts a couple of years I will be a happy dude. 
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Bought a no name Chinese unit without usable documentation. After watching some YouTube video it seems to do a great job!

I spent in the U.K. £140 - just Google Vevor. 

Just found this Forum and signed up.

I know this topic is old, but after using the Vinyl Vac for 4 years thought I wanted to "upgrade" my record cleaning. The vinyl vac did work good for what it is. But wanted better.  Ordered a Vevor 6L digital, a Wewu spinner and a Voltage regulator to slow the spinning down. Should be here in a few days. Distilled water, Ilford Ilfotol, 99.99% Iso will be my solution then a Distilled rinse and vac dry with the vinyl vac.

Very little discussion about Ilford Ilfotol as a surfactant, yet it's what many ultrasonic folks use. Does it also require a final rinse after cleaning, or is a record good to go once it's cleaned and dried?

According to data sheet available on the internet, Ilfotol contains "5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazoline-3-one and 2-methyl-2H-isothiazol-3-one". So this is different from the nonionic detergents like Triton X100 or the Tergitols that have been discussed.  I don't know whether one needs a NID with US cleaning, but assuming it helps, perhaps some chemist among us can enlighten you.  I use a conventional RCM and have been using Triton X100.  I found that after vacuum drying of the wash solution off the surface of the LP, an additional rinse with pure distilled water followed by a second vacuum drying cycle is beneficial to sonics.  This suggests that Triton X100, at least, does leave a residue that is best eliminated.