New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning

In my experience, the Vibrato 135khz is certainly worth a reasonable wait.  I do 4 records at a time.  I think Cleanervinyl had a higher frequency US tank, but it was more expensive, and as I recall, I didn’t know who made it.  I had a quality issue with a cheap 40khz tank.  The Vibrato has been stellar.

Thanks @sryeager. I guess I’ll get a cheap tank to use until the Vibrato is back in production. Vevor makes a 6L that runs at 50kHz, priced at only $118 including shipping.

Since I don’t care about the drying function built into the Degritter (I would rather suck the water off with my VPI or Nitty Gritty than blow warm air on my LP’s), and water filtering systems being pretty simple to add on, and like being able to clean three records at a time instead of only one, I think I actually prefer this combo (Vinyl Stack + Vibrato) to the Degritter. The Degritter sure looks cute, though. ;-)

It took the Vinyl Stack company closing down to finally get me moving on an ultrasonic cleaner, but better late than never. I really like my HW-17F, but there's no denying the benefits of ultrasonic.

The Vinyl Stack ULTRA Sonic Spin Kit (it's full name) has arrived. All the parts are very well made, a high quality product. And the 6L/50kHz Vevor tank is on it's way. That'll have to do until the Vibrato 135kHz tank is again available. 

Now I gotta read through all the blogs on ultrasonic cleaning, and choose my chemicals. I already know I'm going with Tergitol 15-S-9 as my surfactant, and perhaps Alconox as my cleaner.

I totally love my DeGritter - I've cleaned hundreds of albums and it works perfectly!! 

@bdp24,

You should email Louis directly to find out if he'll be making any more of the Vibrato machines. My last conversation with him....he wasn't sure.