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A CHEAP AND VERY EFFECTIVE RECORD CLEANING SOLUTION.

Over the years I’ve tried most of the record cleaning products out there, including the expensive stuff. Here’s what I’ve been using for many years now. It is totally biodegradable and will do no damage to your valuable LPs, and will get them sparkling clean.

https://us.shaklee.com/Green-Home/Household-Cleaning/All-Purpose/Basic-H2%C2%AE-Biodegradable-Cleane...

Use one capful to a gallon of distilled bottled water. Use no more than the suggested capful. More is not better in this case. This will cost only pennies per gallon. 

Frank

PS: I would have put this post in the Analog forum, but this forum gets a lot more action.
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bdp24
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@whart: Oops, thanks for the correction Bill. I’ve been reading the writings of both Neil and Rushton, and conflated the two. I also made it through the complete record cleaning thread on the VPI forum, where a lot of info on the ultrasonic cavitation cleaning of LP’s can be found.

As just did Frank, Harry Weisfeld recommends a final rinse of pure distilled water and subsequent vacuuming on one of his VPI cleaners. Of course any vacuum-type machine will do, and there are a lot of them now available at reasonable cost.
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sbank
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@whart Yes, Rush relocated to a smaller space and moved to all an all digital headphone rig because of the constraints. His Walker table, Avalon, Atma-sphere monos etc. plus a ROOM full of LPs made things a challenge. 

VPI users, when I used a 16.5 for many years, I found rinses a requirement. The 4step Walker products including enzyme mixing and 2 rinses worked best. But now I find the Rushton Paul method much more effective even though I'm using a simple inexpensive, one frequency Ultrasonic machine. Cheers,
Spencer 
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arcticdeth
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Sink w luke warm water,and small squirt of “Ivory mild dish soap” LP label has the label protector, screw it on the label, water tight. I use 2 brushes, one is the rectangle corner painters brush with fine bristles. Other is just a step up more coarse, round no round we go, back and,forth, get a good sudz going, then turn on tap water where there is,no,airation in the water, rinse, rinse again,then again, put on a clean cotton dish towel, press and gently wipe them, then to basement where I stuck felt pads to the underside of the shop-vac attachment, slowly go round n round with the attachment, sucking everything out.
silent records.
Takes time,but, I enjoy doing it. All mine minus a handful have been cleaned like this, placed in Discwasher or the other brand withmamV? I think?
inner goes beside the soft plastic inner, in a,Japanese resealable bag. Into storage,
bought those odyssey DJ type boxes for storage, heavy, but they are super sturdy
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