Lotus cleaning system oxygenated water for LP's?


Anyone with a Tersano Lotus water cleaning/treatment system ever tried cleaning LP's with it? The concept is they add a third oygen molecule to water, and the water becomes a super cleaning agent for about 15 minutes. They claim it cleans much better and faster than Clorox, and blog postings seem to back this up, stating stains that harsh chemical cleaners wouldn't take out were dissolved by the Lotus. This is the cleaning system I'm talking about, not the drinking water system, as that unit de oxygenates the water afterwards for drinking.

The system has a sensor for contaminants to tell you when the fruit or veggies are fully clean. I wonder as a test if an LP were vertically rotated through the water, would the sensor indicate it was eventualy free of contaminates. Of course I was more thinking of using it in a VPI, and vacuuming off the water afterwards. The creator of the unit does state that ozone (O3) can be tough on some plastics and rubber, but the LP would not be my concern, since it would be in contact only once for a short time, but rather the plastic parts of the VPI machine. The inventor has indicated they will test materials that users suggest. I haven't contacted them yet about their thoughts on LP vinyl, I figured it might be good to get some ideas from this forum to querry them about.

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Showing 2 responses by inpepinnovations

Huh, a third O2 molecule to water? I thought water had only one oxygen ATOM and that hydrogen peroxide had two ATOMS, so I was wondering how some one comes up with a third MOLECULE of oxygen??

Even oxygenating water doesn't introduce a third molecule, just a second molecule of oxygen to the first molecule of water.

NRCHY, I think that wet cleaning of new vinyl is not any better than dry cleaning, since the 'dirt' products to which you refer aren't water soluble.
If a 'final rinse' with pure water is meant by 'wet cleaning' and that the rinse in fact just carries away the debris, then a dry rinse could serve the same purpose, i.e. an air rinse using high pressure air.
Of course removing debris from the vinyl surfaces improves sound - it just seems that one needn't use a 'wet' system to do that. A good brush and a good stream of air should do for a new record! Much less chance of damaging the vinyl, also.
Bob P.