My set up is similar but without an ultrasound. Over the past 50 years I have gone to the less chemicals that touch my vinyl the better. I use Tergikleen (20 drops per gallon) (or Photoflow) in a SpinMaster, too. Whenever I buy New brushes for the SpinKleen I reserve one. I use a "new" brush and and older brush, and flip the record halfway through my process (anywhere between 12 full revolutions- and whatever might be needed. I rotate in both directions). I rinse with distilled water from the grocery store over the kitchen sink using a pressurized spray bottle. I dry/ final clean on a Record Dr., once again, rotating both directions, maybe a total of six to 10 rotations per side, and finish air drying with a bamboo dish rack. I pre-clean with a shaving brush, and use a Zerostat for obviously charged records. New inner sleeve and a quick note on the little yellow sticky with date cleaned, condition, whatever. New outer sleeve, if needed, and then back into the rotation. I don't think that there's anything more personal in our world than our record cleaning technique. Maybe stylus care comes close. My changes now are incremental, maybe a new style of label protectors, different "examination", or curator's gloves. Maybe I should start a Go Fund Me for a Degritter...I would only mention what I do, and never tell what I think you should do. It's a journey, not an assignment.
Tergikleen or AIVS formula 15?
I've got both fluids here that I can use for pre cleaning.
I have 2 spin clean machines one is for washing and the other one is just for rinsing the pre-cleaner off the record before going into the Degritter ultrasonic.
The Tergikleen is a little more convenient as it's a concentrate that I can mix up and put into Spin Clean #1. The AI fluid is less fun to use since i have to put the record on a work mat and work the fluid in with a MoFi brush before rinsing it off.
I'm wondering if anyone here has found that one fluid works better than the other? I haven't been through enough records to pick out the difference yet.
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