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Deep Cleaning Records With Steam?

It has happened again. Major tweak and record provider has available a steam cleaner made especially for records. Anybody try steam for cleaning lp’s? What were your results? Since a unit can be had for about $20 at Target, 15% of what the tweak provider is charging, is it worth a try?.
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crem1
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Viper-z: I recently purchased a Gallon of Peak Battery Water only to find the water was fouled. I did not contacted the company; I suspect the contamination was caused by age of the product--too long on the shelf. In my case I strained the gook off (Too much effort) and used the Peak Water for a household steamer. I only hope our problems are not what we can expect in the future.
viper_z
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My local PepBoys only has old inventories. I'll go to my local wholefood market to find the "Rain Fresh" distilled + triple filtered water.
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drubin
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Where are you located, Viper_z? I ask because Rain Fresh is from Texas and it appears that only Whole Foods stores n Texas carry it.
viper_z
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Drubin,
You're kidding me! I'm located right at the heart of TEXAS - Houston - and guess what, I can't find "Rain Fresh" in any of the Wholefood market stores that I just visited today!!!!! (I went to three stores!)

The purest water I can find is from Walmart, it's their standard "distilled water" $0.99 per gal. The label says the water has been treated by distillation, carbon filter, microfilter, reverse osmosis, UV treatment, ozonation. That pretty much sounds like the "Rain Fresh" that I was supposed to find.

VZ
crem1
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Readers: Throughout this thread the question of water sources has come up and gone bye. The water or its relative purity has been discussed here and on other threads. On several occasions I have discussed the relative value of water products with manufactures of audio and other products that depend on excellent water sources. What I have learned is really quite simple, use the "cleanest" source until a better one can be found , and be prepaired to spend 20 times + the price of Peak Water should you decide upon Lab or Rx water sources. Many posts detail the value of hi-purity water and that should not be de-valued in any discussion. But, use what you have , avoid "tap water" due to fouling properities present(minerals, etc.). In the next several days I intend to speak to a Peak rep and will post a re-cap of that conversation.
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