How often do you folks vacuum clean your albums?

How do you steam clean an album??

To Chris 383,
I think you will find that probably the majority of people clean a used album before putting it on their VPI machine. Mainly, this is going to keep those velvet pads on the suction tube cleaner a lot longer, and prevent the need to replace them for a much longer time.

Some of you are clearly not taking this question seriously

:)

To Tom,

That was sort of what I was getting at; after a good cleaning, you would think that several plays may result in some microdust in the grooves, or loosen groove dirt, so that another cleaning might add some benefit

To Kitch 29,

It is a whole lot like every woman I ever had in my life telling me I have to wash off the dish before putting it in the dishwasher.

There has been a lot of emphasis above about keeping the STYLUS clean as even more important than cleaning the record. I use an Onzow Zero pad before each side of an album, then some Stylast stylus treatment.
Two questions: what do you think of that regimen (expensive)? what do you think about dipping the stylus on some Magic Eraser for cleaning (very cheap)??
Thanks