CLEAN RECORDS WITH WHAT?????

What's a good source for Torumat cleaning fluid?

Never use alcohol to clean records. Alcohol damages vinyl, over time it will become brittle and you may see visible streaking on the surface. As far as not putting a liquid on the vinyl before you vacuum, that's just ignorance, any good detergent / surfactant breaks down any bonding between the dirt and the vinyl. For 90+% of records, the proper surfactant and relatively pure water will do an excellent job. As a Chemist, I can tell you that we used this 30 years ago to clean absurdly expensive analytical equipment that had vinyl measuring tubes.

Music Direct in Chicago, a measly $70 a gallon. But, a gallon cleans a ton of records.

This recipe came out of the Absolute Sound about nine years ago and has served me well since:One gallon of pure distilled water,one pint 97% alcohol,10 drops of Kodak photo-flow and 10 drops of windex.This will run you about a dollar per gallon.Alot further than a gallon of gas will get ya.No sonic degregation has occured on any of my records since using this formula and the sound is as good if not better than those so called mega buck cleaners.

a GALON of record cleaner?????????? What for???
Do you need to dip a record inside the bucket with record cleaning solution??

I own a vintage 8oz Memorex anti-static cleaner-conditioner which was sold as a kit along with Audio Exchange brush for a number of years. I acquired it from the record collector who was liquidating his vinyls and he gave it to me for free arround 3 years ago. He used it approximately for the same number of years if not more. Let me tell you -- the bottle doesn't seem to bring the level down so far(still have more than one half left).