Anyone Still Using Zerodust

@mulveling any opinion/concern regarding comments like "Magic eraser is an abrasive so I wouldn’t go near a diamond stylus with it."

Yes, good! The abrasiveness is what makes it an effective cleaner. Diamond is exceptionally hard; much harder than melamine. You either have to wear it down with other diamonds, or through massive attrition over time via softer materials (like thousands of miles of vinyl groove playback - which btw can also contain other materials from imperfect cleaning). Slow-speed dipping or even gentle rotational scrubbing with ME (once per session - don't be obsessive) doesn’t qualify as either.

This is like being concerned about rubbing alcohol being poison, but dabbing it on a scrape anyways. It’s not nearly enough absorption to damage your body, and the cleaning effect is more important to longevity.

The abrasiveness is what makes it an effective cleaner. Diamond is exceptionally hard; much harder than melamine.

Yep, my buddy who is an engineer and builder at Soundsmith uses a specialized xacto knife to scrape hardened ‘gunk’ off a used diamond stylus (under high magnification) to bring back to life when possible. Doubt Magic Eraser is going to do any harm because of its abrasiveness.

He is also a huge proponent of BluTak and Magic Eraser before/after each spin.

I don’t see much mention of anyone using Stylast stylus cleanser, with its very soft brush. . . 

@drbond 

I don’t see much mention of anyone using Stylast stylus cleanser, with its very soft brush. . . 

I have a bottle of both the cleaner and treatment. I use it extremely sparingly. Maybe once every four months or so.  Use BluTak or Magic Eraser on a very consistent  basis and it should not really be necessary.

@mulveling 

+1 Diamond has a hardness of 10 on the Mohs’ hardness scale of 1 to 10. Why it is used as a stylist… it can survive the miles and miles of vinyl grooves it endures.