Actually bought two new LPs this week, still don't have anything to play them on though :scratch:
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Actually bought two new LPs this week, still don't have anything to play them on though :scratch:
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What the hell does 4/5th's mean? :D Looks like 2/3rd's to me
What do you guys use to dispense the cleaning product?
Just a "squeezey" plastic bottle?
I use old caps from Fairy liquid washup bottles. They work perfect for me and fits just perfect on the 1/2 litre bottles of aqua purificata i buy from the pharmacy.
Have tried flower shower bottles and chemical laboratory dispenser bottles, both were worse than the flip top corks.
/M
i use a finger press atomiser bottle. works a treat. i just shield label with something as it rotates. easy and effective.
As said elsewhere i finally got round to making up my first small batch of my recipe record cleaning fluid. its expensive stuff so as i had most of the ingredients to hand thought i would try it.
I cleaned 2 records as a trial a few days ago and finally got round to playing them.
well, I can report that the discs sound great. especially the old bluegrass one. its an old 1963 monoaural recording on the Epic label. its never sounded better.
I'm a happy bunny:D
I have at last made up my own mix to Paul's (ReffC) recipe or thereabouts. I made two mixes:
25/75 plus .5%
40/60 plus .5%
IPA / deionised & distilled / Ilfotol
I use .5% Ilfotol as this is the minimum recommended by the manufacturer, and it just starts to 'soap up' when the records are scrubbed.
I used this instead of my out of date l'Art du Son fluid in a big pump Loricraft. The l'AdS fluid had done alright, and was not evolving new life forms or growing filaments or anything of the kind, just a bottle of clear fluid beyond its best before date mixed and used as required.
Four observations: 1. The home brew fluid spreads much better across the surface and into the grooves with less 'dry grooves'. 2. There is much less fluid spilled off the side of the records. 3. The amount of fluid used per record is significantly higher, maybe becuase it stays on the records or maybe because it coats the surface so much more evenly. 4. The records come up much much quieter than with my l'AdS fluid.
Delighted, I shan't be going back. I have no beef with the l'AdS fluid, it did fine and it was beyond its best before date, but the home brew does so much better, the 25% mix is perfect for nice nick vinyl whilst the 40% helps enormously on those grimy treasures that my charity shop habit throws up.
It takes an hour of ones time to get the bits off amazon and then mix them up when they arrive. I have 5L of cleaning fluid, enough for an army of vinyl, and I'm about £40 down. Of that I will still have 95% of the Ilfotol left once the fluid is gone, so that's about 500 albums really clean for £31 I guesstimate, or 6p an album. Thanks all for the advice in this thread :)
Here's a snap of the fluid on the rcm to give an idea:
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/...-RCM-fluid.jpg