Marco's cleaning process with new vinyl, using an RCM

[AlfaGTV]

L Art Du Son really does what it claims, and i wouldn't exchange it for anything else. Yes, it has a best before date and you need to be really clinical when mixing, storing and handling the stuff.
It's life, but not as we know it!
I gave a bottle of premixed to my friend to try on his Okki, but i was cheap and used a used bottle (used for and old mixture of cleaning fluid, so nuttin worse)
Within two months some form of mold had grown in his solution and it was useless.
However, i o this doesn't have any bearing as the records are cleaned and dried and my opinion is that nothing will grow, or even stay on the surface after the cleaning.

For me, cleaning also removes any static build up and i think youre overusing the vaccum Marco!

Best regards Mike

[Marco]

For me, cleaning also removes any static build up and i think youre overusing the vaccum Marco!

Lol - not really, Mike... I guess that there's a fine line between ensuring that the record is bone dry, after completing the cleaning process (and I mean genuinely bone dry, not merely 'bone dry,' after having given the playing surface a quick glance), and that all grunge removed has been successfully sucked clean from the grooves, and minimising static build-up.

I find that my method of fastidious cleaning (and utilizing the Zerostat gun at the end to remove any small amount of static, remaining from the drying process), produces superb results - the best that I've ever achieved.

YMMV

Marco.