Wanted: Cheap Record Cleaning Machine

[Alex_UK]

If anyone has one tucked away unloved in the garage (Moth or low-order Okki Nokki for instance) and wants to save on ebay fees, or if anyone notices one on the other forums (which I don't frequent, because AoS is THE forum for me! ) then I'd love to hear from you... my bank manager wouldn't, nor my wife, come to think of it, but I would - so sod 'em!

Ta muchly!

[colinB]

If you dont have any luck i have a Disco Anti Stat doing nothing you can have.
Your welcome to have it to tide you over until one crops up.
If you decide to take it send us a PM.

[Alex_UK]

Thanks very much Colin, I'll definitely bear that in mind.

[Alex_UK]

Has anyone ever tried putting a record in the dishwasher? (I'm serious!) - I've tried googling and the only real reference is this rather funny thread on another forum: http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s....php?t=1212569 Post #2 is, I assume a joke ("Dishwasher is good at cleaning vinyl") but has anyone really tried, and if not, what do you think the chances are of damaging the dishwasher? My guess is that the dishwasher will be too hot, and there will be a melted mess in the bottom, or maybe the vinyl will break under the pressure of the water?

I don't really want to try it if it is likely to wreck the dishwasher, though I've got plenty of records I don't mind sacrificing for the cause!

[Stratmangler]

That entire thread is a joke Alex

This should be relatively easy to build http://www.teresaudio.com/haven/cleaner/cleaner.html

[The Grand Wazoo]

Alex,
Chris is correct - the 'advice' given on that site is mostly just plain nonsense. I'd suggest that your search for references to 'dishwasher' pointed you to that site because someone couldn't spell 'discwasher' properly.
A statement that may astonish many people: I've never owned or used a dishwasher. So I don't know if you could adjust the temperature to avoid this. I'd have thought you're going to find that a dishwasher will be too hot. You'll probably end up warping things rather than completely melting them. I surmised from my experiments (on flattening out warps with steam cleaners) that if you heat them up and/or cool them down too quickly then you end up with a roller coaster record. And because a record is so thin it's hard to do either of those things slowly.

[Alex_UK]

I did appreciate it was a joke, didn't word my post very well. I'm not having a good day today (my car has broken down) so I think I had better not try the dishwasher just in case! (I might just stick one in there and blame my Avatar if anything untoward happens to the dishwasher! )

[Alex_UK]

That self build option actually doesn't look too bad, Chris, and I've got an old Dyson I could use which has plenty of suck... Hmmmm.... Doubt I'll ever be ar5ed to do it though!

[Gdg]

Knosti is not too popular on AOS, but I'm using that and I'm very happy about. Give it a try. And it's very cheap, too

[Jason P]

You could always try PVA glue - there's a thread on Vinyl Engine about it. Seriously. Supposed to work well!

I use a Knosti, with the additional step of wiping the cleaned record with a pair of microfibre cloths. This seems to get the bulk of the fluid left on the record off, and I think results in less noise.

Maybe we should get a AoS shared cleaner? Like owning a racehorse...

Jason