cleaning vinyl. which cleaning fluid to use.


Hello
Just wanted to know of the best cleaning fluid to use on my lps, eg mentho spirit 100%, 50/50 metho and water or maybe something else, i am not sure what will damage the surface and grooves. cheers.
steam3642
Only RRL for me. better than disc doctor's stuff. The vinyl is much quieter after using RRL deep clean followed by RRL super vinyl wash.

Loricraft? Doug you suck! Just kidding. I'm still 'ghetto' with my Record Doctor II record cleaning machine.
Nyah, nyah! ;-) Yup, we sprung for it big time. Just couldn't resist after so many positive posts. Another factor was that a wood-plattered Teres seems to be extremely revealing of everything, including surface noise. This was reported at the Teres platter shootout at VSAC last year and I believe it. A Shelter 901 doesn't hide much either, and neither does our taste for classical, with its many low level passages. We really had no choice you know, or so I told Paul!

It's a fine machine but we're still too new with it to post a review. I'd never used anything but a modded shop vac so I have no baseline for comparison, unless you want to hear that a Loricraft beats that.

Next month I'll be visiting someone who has the new, higher powered Loricraft PRC4 (we have the PRC3). It will be interesting to see how much better that works. Maybe I'll write an essay, "How I spent my summer vacation washing records". Talk about my so-called life!

Our final stage is always RRL SVW. No exception to that and no reason to think there ever will be. It's a superb rinse agent. Totally agree that it leaves no sonic signature of its own.
I'd start compiling notes because I will wager that someone will claim that their ShopVac is every bit as good as the Loricraft.

Has Paul appreciated the Loricraft vs. the ShopVac visa vis the price differential? HA! :-)
That would be a different kind of Loricraft thread!

Don't mention Visa cards, please. For the same $ we could have bought 71.8 more Shop Vacs and just lined them up. The damn records still wouldn't get dry, but we'd be deaf so who would know? <:~)

Trade you a Shop Vac for a Graham?