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Really basic brush question

Forgive me if this sounds stupid, but I've been wondering for a while. When I use a carbon fiber brush on records, I hold the brush in a line from the center of the record to the periphery and turn the record underneath it. Eventually there is a line of dust extending radially on the record. Now here's the question: When you're done brushing, how do you get this line of dust off? Do you simply brush it off to the outside of the record? Or perhaps go after it with a damp cloth?

Thanks in advance for trying to clear up (what should be) a really basic question.
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jsawhitlock
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If you can touch one of your power cords with the other hand you'll have no dust. Sounds dumb but it works.
gregadd
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Once you have allowed the dust to collect, slowly slide the brush toward the outside of the record until the entire brush is of the record.

Now reach into your pocket, take out your credit card and purchase a vpi 16.5 record cleaning machine with fluid and a supply of rice paper record sleves. I suggest a zerosat gun also. Now you are ready to perform the most holy of rituals for audiophiles- the record purification ritual.

You can never get that dust off the record entirely using the carbon brush. If you don't follw this, your stylus will become the record cleaning device grinding the dirt into your record and collecting what is left of it on to the stylus.
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hifiharv
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The answer is that you throw away the "audiophile approved" carbon fiber brush and get a cheapo, classic, Disc Washer brush. The dust will be lifted off with the brush. Sorry, but I bought one of those carbon brushes after reading about them for years in the Hi Fi Magazines. After a couple of uses, I went back to the dumb old DiscWasher for exactly the problem you are describing.
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