For those of us who prefer to use a distilled water wash before drying (when using surfactant or another additive to the cleaning fluid), is it possible to stop the machine before the drying cycle, to either switch tanks and run another cycle, or to rinse and dry the record on a vacuum machine?
Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner
I received notification yesterday that the Degritter ultrasonic record cleaner is finally making it into production. I have been watching the company for about a year, as the cleaner has moved from prototype to beta testing , and now to a limited production of the finalized (we’ll see ;-) version. The design is excellent, eliminating my reservations about the high-priced (around $4,000) ultrasonic cleaners, at a little over half their price (just over $2,000, last I read). The Degritter uses 120kHz as it’s ultrasonic frequency, and features water filtering and disc drying. It also looks cool, like a 1950’s toaster! Details available on the companys website.
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Yes the Degritter is very flexible and user programmable. I got two water tanks for my Degritter for when I want to do as you’ve mentioned - a second wash to remove any left over surfactant. Though the usual presets combine wash and dry, you can select to only wash the record - 3 presents from light/med/heavy wash times. Or only dry. So I do a heavy wash with the surfactant tank, with no dry time selected. When it’s finished I switch in the water-only tank and select a quick wash/dry cycle. |
Says here it is in stock: https://degritter.com/product/degritter-rcm/ I just picked one up. They had a few blemished units offered at a discount on the site so I grabbed one of those. I have been using it for a couple weeks. It works quite well in my opinion. I just bought the adapters for 7" and 10" records too as I have a fairly decent number of those records. I don’t do a second rinse though. The cleaner has an antistatic property to it and I find that this has definitely helped in my situation. |
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