On the SpinClean, I was at AXPONA, a couple weeks ago, and one of the vendors there in the vendor room, was selling these. I had seen them before. His pitch made me do some Google-ing. There's a number of threads that point out that the SpinClean re-applies the dirt, since the solution sits there, record after record. A few people say that the SpinClean solution they sell has a flocculant that is supposed to aggregate the dirt, and make it settle out at the bottom. Seems the physics of motion of the record agitating the solution would be a greater force - and many of the opinions online seem to support that side of the argument.
The cleaner I'm thinking of now, is a reasonable alternative - that is a solution and vacuum drying machine, but is economical. And, from what I can tell, it is conducive to using a home-grown cleaning solution, like some of these here.
Check out the PHK. I haven't purchased it yet, and wonder if anyone here has tried one. They require a wet-dry shop vac. Frankly, they look like you could get the parts from Home Depot, and build it yourself - but this guy in Brazil has already make the system.
Here's a Vinyl Engine review LINK HERE.
And a YouTube DEMO VIDEO.
And they seem to be a bit tricky to purchase. The company's website is no longer up (was up a few weeks ago). When I looked they were about $200. Which, for a record cleaning service at $5 a record, would pay for itself after cleaning 40 records.
Has anyone seen or have an opinion on this unit?
Any thoughs on reverse-engineering it with home-depot PVC parts, a motor and a shop vac?