PHOTOFLOW LIQUID FOR CLEANING RECORDS ISO
My brew is 75% distilled water (regular store bought), 25% Iso alcohol, and 1 drop DAWN detergent. I will say that using any solvent type fluids or ammonia based fluids will ruin your LP's - whether you believe that or not I would'nt chance it. I suggest you use what you're comfortable with. Second: There are as many different types of record cleaners as there are opinions. This will keep the cork mat clean and dry, and will not allow for a messy cleaning cycle. This is a fool-proof way to deliver the EXACT amount of cleaning fluid in the right amount over the record surface only. When building my RCM I took this into consideration and designed in an automatic pump motor with a fluid control valve linked to a transfer hose that has a specific number of holes and in a specific length of tubing. Cork can be wet and then dried again, but this takes away from the use of the cleaner - if it's too difficult or messy to use, most people will stop using it. The fluid will then flow onto the label and raise it, or it will seap over the sides of the record and wet the cork and table. The problem here is that everyone, and every spray bottle will spray differently, and most of the time it's too much. Most platter type cleaners (actually all that I know) have the fluid applied externally, ie, with a spray bottle. First: The cork does need to be clean, as already stated. I guess that's too easy -).įirst let me clear up a few things. I bought a gallon of the stuff years ago when I got the machine and still have more than half of of it! That's like a lifetime supply, no more trips to the store, no more projects in the kitchen and no more dirty records.
PHOTOFLOW LIQUID FOR CLEANING RECORDS PROFESSIONAL
Professional fluid is not too expensive in pint size bottles. Yeah, you can make it after driving all over creation to round-up the parts or you could just buy a bottle and be done with it. Those are great, but not really the topic of this thread which was DIY solution. They only require semi-anual replacement of the velvet "sweeps" which scrub the Lp. I have had one of their machines for perhaps fifteen years also and it works wonderfully. So you can't use a "spray bottle" or "wear-out wands" with the Nitty Gritty designs.
they clean the bottom side of the Lp, using gravity as an aid and do not cross-contaminate records by necessitating laying the just cleaned Lp side on a platter where a dirty Lp was just removed to clean the other side. One thing about the Nitty gritty machines that is overlooked here is that they don't have platters. Not that they don't deserve a "harumph!" as Johnny Neutron does for their efforts, they do! All in an attempt to justify their efforts. Also they often don't count labor, gas for trips to stores and in many cases shipping on parts that were mail ordered. The way they get away with that is to use an old turntable as a platter and motor if it turns automatically at all, many people DIY manually operated machines. Better motors and such cost way more than what people are quoting here.
If you count your time, you'd have a whole bunch of hours into building anything that looked decent. I agree that it makes more sense for most people to just buy the fluid and even a machine if you will get much use out of it.
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