Record Cleaning Fluid?

@nrenter - fascinating. I usually regard using things like toilet bowl cleaner and magic eraser as not good for vinyl LPs, but I re-read your post and am curious. (Not that I’m gonna go stick one of those things in my KL any more than I’d eat a Tide Pod). Do you have a background in chemistry or materials science? Can one buy those chemicals (sans the blue dye, say), without going all Walter White? And how would one determine that something like that (which we use in our dishwasher as well although for some reason, i think the detergent and rinse aid are a single ’pod’) is ’safe’ for LPs?
When I look at the CVs of folks in a chemistry or material science department at a major school, I rarely see anyone who would be familiar with applications involving vinyl, let alone vinyl records unless it just happened to be a hobby in addition to their profession. Pray tell....

Jet Dry is just a rinse aid liquid - you’re thinking of those Finish tabs. I’d never consider putting one of those in my US machine. A few ml of Jet Dry? Perhaps. You can find Jet Dry at any grocery store here in the ‘states. 

No chem degree here. Just thought Jet Dry would bring a few missing elements to the US party - surfactants, chelation agents, and a touch of preservatives. Now I’m waiting for someone to try it out and report the results. ;) 

Well...someone had to try it. But what's a repeatable test? I'm not saying the following is definitive (or even valid), but here's what I've done and my very, very early conclusions...

I had no idea how much Finish Jet Dry Original rinse aid (http://www.finishdishwashing.com/products/enhancers/jet-dry/jet-dry-rinse-aid-original/) to add to a COMPLETELY full Klaudio KD-CLN-LP200 reservoir (I'm guessing it holds 3 liters, but need to measure). I first tried 5 ml (1 tsp.) of Finish Jet Dry Original rinse aid.

Now, what to test? I've noticed that the Klaudio's KD-CLN-LP200 isn't very good at removing fingerprints from an LP, so I pulled out my Hi-Fi News Analog Test LP, wiped the side of my nose, and put a greasy fingerprint on the blank area between tracks 5 and 6 on Side 1. After a 5-minute clean cycle, the fingerprint was completely gone. However, there was a bit more "foaming" in the reservoir than I would have liked.

So I flushed the reservoir (twice) and filled, again, completely full, with distilled water, and repeated my greasy fingerprint test. 

Distilled water alone would *not* remove the fingerprint.

Since I know 5 ml of Finish Jet Dry Original rinse aid would remove the fingerprint, I want to determine the minimum amount of Jet Dry to achieve the same results. Long story short, 1.25 ml (1/4 tsp) it not sufficient to cause a sufficient wetting of the LP (water beads on the LP as it rotates), nor it is sufficient to remove the fingerprint. However, 2.5 ml IS sufficient. For now, this is where I've landed.

I boldly just cleaned a noisy MoFi LP...and the difference is significant. 

I'm not making claims if this is 1) safe for the US machine, 2) safe for your LPs, or 3) produces an audible difference. But I can say that it helps remove fingerprints.

Last nite I used a mix of distilled water, a few drops tergiclean, several drops jet rinse aid. Records came out immaculate. No streaks, no scrim. Didn't even use rinse cycle. Playing them all day today. Louder & more vivid. Better than vinylclean isop mix, better than chisto easy groove, better than tergiclean solo. All three the latter were without the jet rinse, ergo the cleaners may be just fine, the jet rinse is the key missing ingredient. I use a hand crank cleaner (not the spin clean).