Record cleaning

[Clive197]

The use of an RCM when the record is first acquired, and the use of a carbon fibre brush before the record is played is all that is needed.

Those tacky rollers are IMO a bit too vicious to use on my valuable vinyl.

+1

[Infinitely Baffled]

The use of an RCM when the record is first acquired, and the use of a carbon fibre brush before the record is played is all that is needed.

Those tacky rollers are IMO a bit too vicious to use on my valuable vinyl.

I have never worked out how to remove the line of dust that forms up on the record when you use a carbon fibre brush. In my experience, once you have concentrated all the debris into a single broad stripe like that, it is practically impossible to get it off without leaving a "shadow".

The most effective method of removing dust that I have come across was the original Pixall "Off the Record" adhesive tape roller, used across the record while the dust was still naturally distributed across its surface (ie. without using a brush to try and collect it first). Second best option is the Nagaoka roller, I think.
IB.

[walpurgis]

I find the bristles on carbon fibre record brushes too long and floppy. I've had several and have given up on them. My vintage Nagaoka Argento-4 velvet brush does a great job.

[Oddball]

Break out the woodglue

[Gazjam]

I use one of these.
Advantage (I guess) is the span of the brush covers the entire radius of the LP?
Best by far of any record brush I've tried, and I've tried all the usual suspects.
This, and an RCM and your sorted.



From an antistatic point of view, guys on the Nikon camera forum swear by it!
Good enough for me!

[Sherwood]

I have never worked out how to remove the line of dust that forms up on the record when you use a carbon fibre brush. In my experience, once you have concentrated all the debris into a single broad stripe like that, it is practically impossible to get it off without leaving a "shadow".

The most effective method of removing dust that I have come across was the original Pixall "Off the Record" adhesive tape roller, used across the record while the dust was still naturally distributed across its surface (ie. without using a brush to try and collect it first). Second best option is the Nagaoka roller, I think.
IB.

It's all in the wrist action! Start with the brush as the arm of clock in 9 o'clock position. After two rotations of record and keeping the brush horizontal, move it at 45 degrees down to the right and exit the record so the brush is tangential to the 6 o'clock position at exit. Voila!

Geoff