What is the best way to clean Vinyl?

I posted the Link to PAVCR Third Edition.

There is a reasonable amount available to be read in other Threads about the value of using methods described.

I am an advocate of the Manual Clean Method, I have tuned the method to suit my needs and when organised can clean 10 Lp's in an hour, with a selection of the the first cleaned being ready to be played by the end of the cleaning session.

The solutions produced following the guidance and used for Manual Cleaning are able to produce a Purified Clean LP, the perception of being clean, is quite something to discover.

The method has surpassed and superseded my Old used Methods, and I have come to a place where there is no desire to use the owned US Tank for cleaning.    

@fleschler   "I have a rule I made up, if I don't want to hear a record at least 3 times annually, out it goes."

This statement doesn't add up arithmetically.  You currently have 28,500 records.  You dispose of records you don't play 3 times a year.  I assume each side is 20 minutes, you listen to the whole record and you spend 40 hours per week listening.  in a year you have 2080 hours to listen to only 1040 records 3 times each.  Ergo you should have only 1040 records, not 28,500.  If you listen continuously 24 hours per day, you can still only retain 4368 records.

I read on the Stereophile forum that the Spin Clean system can cause static on the vinyl.

True or False

Wet cleaning generally reduces static. However, if you dry a disk with a microfibre cloth you may introduce static then. I don't worry about it as I always treat a record before playing it with either a Zerostat gun or, lately, the Furutech Destat III.

As for your question about a Spin Clean, U/S and vacuum machine for <$500, you'd need to find some used bargains and I don't think you'd easily come in under budget! You could get a Humminguru for $375USD. Once you have tasted the convenience of a machine it is hard to clean manually, unless you are as saintly as pindac! But a Spin Clean is relatively cheap and if you don't mind the effort there is little to lose by trying it out.

@clearthinker 

Yeah, that is hard to miss that. I thought the current number was 18,000… which would take about 2.5 years to listen to once if you listened 24 hours per day. it is easy to be a bit sloppy with numbers… but those are some large numbers.
 

I am somewhat intimidated by my 2,000 albums and me being 70 years old… can I listen to them all in my lifetime.