Steam cleaning records 2

All a slight warping is almost normal when steam cleaning. In my experience some record companies vinyl warps more than others when steaming. As you pass the steamer to the inside of the LP the warping will stop and the LP will return to its original state. I have yet to leave a warp in a vinyl LP that i have steamed. And if you notice i have my Perfection Steamer apex 2 or 3 inches from the surface of the LP. Speaking of David Bowie i've had a MFSL pressing and its sound was fine. Now that i know all of my LPs must be steam cleaned i recently played the LP and put it in my steaming bin. All the difference in better sound from playing before and after is so audible its not funny. Steam cleaning is the best way i know to prepare a vinyl LP for a quite and super sounding playing session.

Crem i only hope that the people who live up the Atlantic seaboard don't experience the full furry of a cat 3 or better Hurricane. A lot of those areas are under sea level like us and it would be a sobering ordeal to live through. We are packing now to return to the big easy after escaping Gustav, from what i am seeing now from Ike it does not look good for the gulf coast. I'm Hopping all stay out of harms way.

I have a simple question for those that use micro-fiber cloths on their LP's.

How do you clean/wash the cloth's?

So I just watched Stltrains video again and noticed that the steaming time is much longer than I have been doing. I have the same steamer and it runs out of steam after about 3-4 seconds. If I ever hold it in place long enough for the record to rotate fully - then move it closer to the spindle to do the same, I'll run out.

I was thinking that I need to be quicker, but now I see that I should be doing it longer. But even the way I'm doing it, when I go to do my 'rinse' I can't make it across the record.

Any ideas why I am running out of steam so fast?

Crem,
Yes, my Highway 61 does have the charcoal of BD inside. This was a great find. Only problem, I didn't find it first. A local dealer did, and he knew what he had. I debated for several days whether I should pay him what he was asking or wait to maybe find one on my own. In the end, I paid VG+ price for what is clearly better than VG+ but not quite MN. The matrix # on side one is 1B. I'm not sure if I'll see this again. Hopefully the steaming will help it sound it's best. Happy hunting.

crem,

thanks a ton for taking the trouble to check things out for me!!! really appreciate it. next week a steam cleaner is in the order line and a homemade vacuum set up. cant wait to hear what all the guys here are hearing from their lps.

halcro,
thanks for that experiment of only steaming and a rinse. sure don't make sense spending unnecessarily!!! will try it out first before moving (if necessary!) to a cleaner.

regards