Thumbs up for ultrasonic record cleaning

I'm another 'air-dryer'.  Because I don't have a vacuum.  So my process is to Spin Clean w/ their solution first, put them on the VinylStack, drop into the bath for 10 minutes and then take it over to the kitchen sink and run warm water over them while the labels are protected.  Then I use a spin clean with distilled water and then put them in a file rack with a fan running.  Occasionally I'll see a drop but it's pretty rare.  They normally come out spotless.  But I know a vacuum would be much better.  I might head down that path at some point.

@terry9,

Your mention of a "high speed vinyl stack spinner" ..could you elaborate? Is this something you put together yourself?

This IS fun isn't it.

@slaw 

As you say, this is fun. But no, I didn't put it together - got too much on my plate with my air bearing turntable (working close to the limit, but a quadrature power supply should improve it further) and pre/phono (Version 2.0 with air-gap and vacuum caps ONLY in the signal path).

I asked the good folks at Vinyl Stack to put a special motor on their spinner, and they found something that works brilliantly. I run the unit at about 60 RPM to do a fast rinse and uniform cool-down under running water (about 10C). If you have pure tap water, it's fast and convenient. Recommended.

@terry9,

Does "pure tap water" = ROM system?

No - municipal tap water comes from a river only 20 (yup, 20) miles long. So it's close to distilled specification. Absent that, I would use RO.