Wanted: Cheap Record Cleaning Machine

[Alex_UK]

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

I did read that on one of the other forums, and it makes sense, but I bet it is messy and time consuming to do! I might give it a try, though, I've got some somewhere.

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.

I'm wondering if a Knosti but also using a vacuum cleaner with brush (similar to Chris's link for the DIY machine) to suck off the liquid/gunk might go close to a VPI/Moth etc... ?

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

I think the only issue is logistics - there are already people doing a cleaning service on ebay at £1.50 - £2.00 including replacement sleeves, but it is the postage that is the killer, unless you can drop off/collect (there appears to be Beds, Worcester and Central London only covered on ebay, so not really convenient for me.) The value for me would be in cleaning most of my records, so I think a machine of some sort it will have to be, which split across the number of records is chicken feed really, it's just finding another £400+ on top of everything else at the moment.