Record Cleaning Solution

[Balok 1,410]

Does anyone have advice on a homemade record cleaning solution. I have heard the following is good;

 

1) 75 % distilled water,

2) 25 % isopropyl alcohol ( i assume 99%)

3) a couple drops of dish soap.

 

I will be using the solution with my Disco Antistat Record Cleaning gizmo. This actually works pretty well. Thanks.

 

 

[SteveFord 1,060]

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I just use the concentrated stuff from VPI, though. StereoDog, I believe, recommended something that's supposed to be much better but I needed to place an order for VPI parts so had them throw in some of their cleaner.

[OBI56 23]

 

 

Does anyone have advice on a homemade record cleaning solution. I have heard the following is good;

 

1) 75 % distilled water,

2) 25 % isopropyl alcohol ( i assume 99%)

3) a couple drops of dish soap.

 

I will be using the solution with my Disco Antistat Record Cleaning gizmo. This actually works pretty well. Thanks.

 

 

Balok, you should read THE definitive dicument on record cleaning published by Cecil Watts back in the 60's. It actually recommends a solution of distilled or non-hard water with a few drops of photo wetting solution to clean records. I'd avoid alcohols as they can attack some of the plasitizers used in making records rendreing the vinyl more succeptible to damage. Alcohols also have the nasty tendancy of leaving a film or slurry of contaminants in the record grooves which gets ground into the grooves by the stylus.

 

Rich should have a copy of this on file somewhere or I can e-mail you a copy.

[RichP714 3,151]

 

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