I've given up on the Mapleshade Phonophile Deep Cleaning Kit. What I'm convinced is their Scuzzbuster is nothing more than some household Orange Cleaner. It leaves a passage of grime for the stylus to plough through. Below is my email to them:
"I purchased on March10th the PhonoPhile cleaning system along with several other items. After my first session of "cleaning" 6 LP's, I found that they were unplayable. A massive residue build up accumulated on the stylus before the first track was over. I followed the instructions in the manual to the letter. I called your tech support and I don't recall who I talked to but he was very knowledgable about the manual (he wrote it) and was surprised when I informed him that there was no tap water rinse step after the second scrubbing (step 4 on Page 4 of the manual). The manual directed you to go back to Page 3 and follow the steam rinse procedure. I was informed that there should have been a warm tap water rinse step to rinse away the Scuzzbuster before moving on to the steam rinse step. He assured me that the water would not harm the record label in any way.
Well today was the first time I had another cleaning session using the "correct" procedure. I rewashed all of the towels and rinsed the blue micro-fiber block the night before. I thoroughly rinsed each side using warm tap water after the Scuzzbusting steps, did the prescribed wiping with the micro-fiber block, yellow towels. Even double steamed and rewiped. Went upstairs to play the record and it sounded like sh**. I hope another record cleaning system will undo the damage. There appears to be no way to remove the accumulated Scuzz Buster residue. My stylus looked like it was dragged through wax after 1 minute of contact with the record surface."
I've been happy with several of their other products, but this one clearly isn't up to the job. I probably spent 6-8 meticulous minutes per record to get a record that is unplayable. Any suggestions on what I can do to bet the grunge off? Isoproponal?
