"Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better!

@oldaudiophile It was a simple question; Has anyone tried Mofi's Ultra Record Wash concentrate for ultrasonic cleaning machines?  In stead, outside of other methods of cleaning. you recommend mixing/making my own.  When I asked you how to make my own 'SPECIFIC' cleaner, I get a treatise on something completely different.  So you do not know what's in a bottle of Mofi's Ultra Record Wash concentrate for ultrasonic cleaning machines.  That's all you had to say or nothing at all. I'm sure your method of cleaning Lp's works well for you, but that's not what I was asking about.  So I give up.  It's not that important.  

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I use a Degritter and a Spin Clean with goat hair brushes.  I have a vacuum machine that I don't use anymore with a lot of cleaners that sits idle(actually put away) that I'll never use again, thank god if he exists. I'm familiar with the Degritter II, not necessary `if you own the original, the original KLA, the Audiodesk.  Honestly I don't know if the new KLA is better than the old(supposed to be more reliable), but the Degritter is built well.  I know there machines can clean thousands of records in a relatively short period without failure, well beyond what a typical home owner would use it for.  Those jewelry cleaning cavitation machines were not designed to clean Lp's.  It is what is. 

@vitussl101 the reason I gave you a little detail (i.e.  more, evidently, than your mind can handle) was to attempt to point out that there are many different record cleaning methodologies (i.e.  different equipment, conditions, fluid temperatures, rotational speeds; etc.) and this is only my present approach.  However, since you want answers fed to you like pablum, here 'ya go:  "distilled water and 0.004% Tergitol 15-S-9" in a US machine" set to operate between 27C and 31C" (not to exceed a fluid temperature of 37C) for "15 minute (cleaning) cycles" with records rotating "at 0.5 RPM" in the cleaning fluid and "spaced (at least) 1.25" apart" if you are cleaning more than 1 record at a time.  Does that work for 'ya or is that still too much to digest?  Try getting up on the other side of the bed, for a change.  It might improve your crotchetiness.  Happy Holidays to you and yours!

@antinn thanks again, bud!  You're the best!  Happy & healthy holiday wishes for you and all your loved ones!

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It is a no go for me to play records with no turntable lid!  I would go further and say l would never think EVER about buying one that didn’t have this one simple rudimentary requirement.

Keeping vinyl dust free and smoke free contaminates if the owner is heaven forbid a smoker must be the first consideration in my book. I may be old school but l would never buy a turntable without the one critical requirement……a turntable lid.

l just can’t get my head around playing records without thinking of all the airborne dust making it’s way onto the surface. Surely it defeats the whole object of actively cleaning your collection and then ‘openly’ inviting future contamination.

Seriously l wonder why people who own a turntable without a lid and then bang on about cleaning solutions. After all if you bought a convertible would you ever not put the ‘lid up’ in adverse conditions?

Just a bit of light banter here, but we’ll worth considering if you are of the ‘no lid brigade’ and think you can ever hope to get on top of the record cleanliness quest.