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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!tarpit!tous!bilver!bill
- From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
- Subject: Re: Question about record cleaning.
- Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 02:51:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.025102.1964@bilver.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov15.051849.27622@cs.mcgill.ca> <1992Nov15.120901.15877@panix.com>
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- In article <1992Nov15.120901.15877@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.051849.27622@cs.mcgill.ca> narpet@cs.mcgill.ca (Greg WARD) writes:
- >>I have a question that has probably plagued mankind for decades, and (I
- >>fear) will become increasingly hard to answer: what's the best way to
- >>clean my vinyl LP's? ....
-
- >Don't use an alcohol or freon-containing cleaner on vinyl LP's.
- >They will degrade the vinyl by removing plasticizer, or worse.
- >Cleaning agents REALLY designed to clean vinyl don't have these ingredients.
- >Use a fluid like Discwasher designed for vinyl, or else use
- >distilled (or tap) water with a tiny amount (a drop) of detergent.
-
- All of the well known cleaning devices, Keith Monks, Nitty
- Gritty, VPI, et al, use a cleaning solution that has a
- compositon of aboaut 75% water, 25% alcohol, and a wetting
- agent.
-
- The alcohol is really neccesary to get rid of contaminents that
- are untouched by the unversal solvent, water.
-
- Some plasticizers may be removed, but these machines makes sure
- that the solutions are on the record for only a short while,
- and there really isn't any better way to do it.
-
- To hear a record - even new - before and after use of a
- cleaning machine is a revelation.
-
- Too often Discwasher will help embed particulate in the bottom
- of the grooves - something only a vacuum devices that uses a
- cleaning solution can do.
-
- --
- Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org bill.vermillion@oau.org
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