New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning

Has anyone else received the Vevor machine Walmart is selling? Mine arrived a few days ago, and the upright carriage with the slot for lowering and raising the motor with attached LP’s is completely different from that pictured in the Amazon and Walmart listings (though each retailers machine goes by a different name, they are identical).

The upright I received is actually much nicer that the one pictured, being a much more elegant single slab of aluminum. But instead of having a threaded knob on either side of the motor, mine has single one in the rear. Not a problem.

What IS a problem is the spindle onto which LP’s are placed. The end of that spindle is far too short, it’s threaded end extending only slightly past the middle of the 6L tank. If you clean only a single LP, fine: the LP---using all the provided plastic spacers (see below)---can be in the middle of the width of the tank. But if you clean more than one at a time, all the LP’s will be squeezed into one half of the tanks width. Duh!

9 plastic spacers are provided, but are far too thin: there should be more than the spacers 1/4" thickness between any two LP’s. Sure, you can glue three or four of them together, and clean just two or three LP’s. But still, the one furthest out on the spindle will be in the middle of the tank, the other two between it and the edge. That is unacceptable.

Back to Walmart it goes. You get what you pay for. I’ve been looking at the Cleaner Vinyl line of US machines: they have expanded their product line since I last looked, including a 132kHz tank. A fully loaded model (with drying fan and water filtration system) is under a grand. I haven’t seen a single used Degritter come up for sale, and don’t expect to.

Have ya'll heard about the HumminGuru ultrasonic?  Looks to be a simplified, budget version of the Degritter, supposedly available later in the year for around $400.

@bdp24

A fully loaded model (with drying fan and water filtration system) is under a grand

Taking a quick look at the Cleaner Vinyl site it appears the under a grand price does not include the US tank, but is the full monty ancillaries.

Good point @totem395. Let me point out that a Vevor brand 40kHz tank can now be had for just under a hundred bucks. That, combined with the VinylStack LP spinner (recommended by @slaw, who is, as always, right on the mark ;-), is only about $170 more than the budget all-in-one cleaners discussed in this thread.

If and when the 132kHz tank offered by Vibrato (designed and built expressly for LP's) again becomes available, one of those may be substituted for a 40kHz tank if one so chooses. The combined price of that pairing is just under a grand. If one feels no need for LP drying and water filtering, that pairing appears to provide LP cleaning as good as any machine available at any price.

I use the basic Cleanervinyl rotisserie and two tanks.  One is a cheapo 40hz (kHz?) and a Vibratto 135hz that sweeps.  I first do the disc doctor fluid with the brushes, and without letting it dry on the records or rinsing, spin them in the 40 tank.  Then into the 135 to also rinse.  I have a filter running in the second tank, and replace the distilled water in that one fairly frequently.  Then air/fan dry, still on the rotisserie.  Unless the records are damaged or scratched to begin with, they are silent on a MoFi Studiodeck with a Soundsmith cartridge.