Post #329742 by I, Zombie on Sun, Sep 2, 2007 4:03 PM

On 2007-08-30 01:25, sushiman wrote:
I'd like to revive this thread as I've been purchasing a fair amount of old vinyl lately . Any other suggestions / home remedies / whatever ?

Sushi,

I bought the Nitty Gritty Record Doctor vacuum machine for like $225. You can find it here: http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/frary/record_doctor2_review.htm I'll be cleaning up that Wanderly album later tonight {wink}.

OR you can build your own (I built my first one, and used it for a year and a half). A guy who does a punk show on KFAI also made one. It's not that hard. See: http://www.teresaudio.com/haven/cleaner/cleaner.html

One type of juice. http://discdoc.com/
Or make your own as suggested.

I moved my machine out into the garage, since I was cleaning so many records per week, that the moldy dust was causing trouble. But I clean 30 records a week for my radio show. If you clean a few every day or when you buy them, then indoors would be fine.

Be sure to have decent sleeves too. No sense cleaning them and then putting them in a crummy sleeve.

By far the best product you could by for your records is one of these vacuum machines. The sound difference is incredible. Very rich and full after a good cleaning.

The ONLY draw back on the Nitty Gritty machines is that you can only do about 4 records at a time. The machine gets hot after awhile and though I doubt records would ever actually warp on the machine, the heat makes me cautious.

Good luck!

~glen
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