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New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning

Purchased a cheap $199.00 stainless steel digital ultrasonic cleaner with a very nice record cleaning attachment off Amazon and I am having a blast.

This thing is heated, has a timer and an electric motor to rotate the records in the US tank. It is a 6L unit and it is made in China. Seems well built and it cleans records like a much more expensive machine.

I have cleaned a half dozen albums that are 40 plus years old and have only been cleaned with vacuuming machines and this thing is great. The albums I have cleaned sound darn near new and my wife thought I bought another new cartridge or phono pre-amp.

Can not recommend this type of cleaning system enough.

Rediscover those old albums.. if this thing lasts a couple of years I will be a happy dude. 
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bdp24
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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.
totem395
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@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.
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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.
sryeager
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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.
coys21
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Fwiw, I went with the solution described in the first paragraph two posts above on bdp24’s reply. The VinylStack spinner is great, IMO. Have had good results. Tiny complaint, after about 3 hours of cleaning my US (6L size) heats up to 40C even with the heat off. Easy to rationalize that one deserves some quiet listening time after three hours of cleaning, however. 
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