"Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better!

One of the things I really like about my KL Audio ultrasonic machine is that the only "cleaning fluid" it uses is distilled water.  No gunk, no chemicals, no minerals, just clean (and dry!) records.  I also have a VPI 16.5 that I use first if a used record looks really dirty.  I've never had either machine make a record "worse".  

There have been times where I've wondered how much they really do, but a lot of times a record is just pressed badly, or worn and no amount of cleaning will help.  It can be very effective as well.  I remember a time I had my girlfriend over listening to music with me and the record we were listening to was really noisy.  She said "why don't you put that in your cleaning machine" to which I replied, "it's probably just worn out and I doubt that will help", but after a good cleaning it was noticeably better.

@unclewilbur 

...I tried to post a picture here, but it didn't work. Any suggestions would be appreciated. 

Try this:

1. Write your text.

2. Open a new browser tab and find a Photo already uploaded to the web. If you have an image you want to use it must be stored elsewhere on the web. Flickr and Imgur are two services that allow this, and can be free.

3. Right-click (Windows)/control-click (Mac) on the image

4. A pop-up menu appears
    select ‘copy image address’

5. Go back to your Audiogon post and click in top bar: 6th icon from left:

6. Dialog box appears: paste copied image URL in the box
    No need to do anything else.

7. Click OK

8. Post your response

@elliottbnewcombjr 

Thanks for the info on where to buy the mirror.  I have two slightly different ones on order from Temu, and Amazon will be my backup plan.  i have had varying experiences with Amazon.  Say no more!

Ultrasound bath is the way to go.  And perhaps a rinse and vacuum after.  But ultrasound is a total game changer for cleaning LPs.  A revolution.  A breakthrough.  A paradigm shift.

I could go on but you get the idea...

@unclewilbur 

everyone

I made a Virtual System called MISC on this site, just to upload pics from my computer that I want to show here. Once there, do just as noted by dogberry above;

IMAGE: any web image, right click, copy image address. in your post window, click the 6th icon from the left, paste the image address in the URL box

IMAGE SIZE: I was getting distorted pics inserted, a member here had me simply enter the width box, enter 555, click OK (it automatically retains the aspect ratio of the original).

Hit return after you insert, that moves the insertion blinker below the photo in case you want to add more text, or other links, images.

LINK: any web address, you copy it, then in your post go to the 4th icon from the right, (right of the smiley) (it's a symbol of a chain LINK). click, paste the full address in the URL box, then you can name it anything you want in the top box 'display text'.