Do You Have a Homemade Record Cleaning Machine?

I can't remember where I found them, but I came across a set of plans using an old turntable and vacumn cleaner housed in a box....and then I bought a VPI 16.5! For what they sell for used ($350), I think the VPI is the way to go.

I'm working on photo's, Paul. I'd put my DIY RCM up against any VPI as far as how effective it is at getting records clean and I spent about $65 building it. It ain't pretty and spins manually, but boy does it suck! :)

Thanks, Dan. Aceto, it's not for a Rube Goldberg project. Rather, I'd like these to collect in a section of a website about record cleaning. My purpose is to show newbies (and perhaps some not-so-newbies) that very effective homemade RCMs can be made for not a lot of dollars. I suspect that the cost of commercial RCMs keeps quite a few from getting one or from entering the vinyl world altogether.

How do you post photos in a thread? If I knew, I could post a couple photos of my own homemade RCM. Any volunteers to teach me ... or post for me?

Best regards to all,
Paul

Posting pics to the thread is supposed to be so easy, and it probably is, but I've never been able to get it to work. The simplest thing is to post it to your system.

Here's a nice one...

http://www.cybercomm.nl/~ivo/photo_ROSIE.html