I have a few cans of GruvGlide, which I don't use. I bought them many years ago when I thought they might be a good idea. They do smell delicious though, and if I ever get into huffing they might be useful.
Anybody using the last record preservative
Back in the early '80s I started using last record preservative now here 40 whatever years later just picked up another bottle because I noticed all my new records have a lot of noise with the exception of a few analog Productions and some Rhino records are pretty quiet but the most have a lot of surface noise long story short picked up a new bottle of last record preservative put it on one of my records and OMG the difference is amazing my system nowadays is way more resolving than it used to be noise floor has dropped into the basement and the musical and the music has jumped to the foreground
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I know of an individual who’s been using WD-40 for at least a decade in this way; that should be an eye blink for chemical integrity / lifespan of vinyl. Ingredients like “white spirits” and the liquid-like state of the film, once applied and made available to the pick-up / hollow cantilever, had me head-scratching and chin-rubbing. I haven’t employed WD-40 this way despite what wonders I’ve heard it do in person (for old noisy records). Makes me wonder the ingredients in Last and not just how it would affect the vinyl, but the pick-up, too. Should be much easier for folks in a hundred years since that’ll be ample time to assess for a cartridge and “workin’ disc’s” lifespan alike. WD-40 on LP’s from the ‘60s sure did sound good as on old door hinges, though. |
Perhaps fifteen or twenty years ago when vinyl was the only medium for audiophiles there was enormous amount of effort by audiophiles and even chemists to determine appropriate and effective cleaning fluids. Extensive testing, much of it science based where museums were concerned with record preservation made it very clear that even adding a very small amount of alcohol to cleaning fluid would remove plasticity from the vinyl and result in increased wear and damage the records.
So, unless you are really interested in diving in to the enormous volume of literature on the subject. I would stick with major / non alcohol based cleaning and preserving fluids. So that leaves out STP, transmission fluid, and olive oil. |
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