vinyl cleaning with wood glue....works?


Hi all,

I have been researching a way of cleaning vinyls and at a certain point I came across a particular way...looked really funky to me.
They are using wood glue and it looks like it works better than anything else.
My perplexity is if glue remains deep down then it can ruin the pick up.

anybody has ever successfully used this method?
What do you guys think?
stefanoo

Showing 2 responses by les_creative_edge

I've tried white glue a few times. If you spread it out evenly and let it dry well (takes a while) it can give you good results. Try putting a piece of a paper on an edge as a lift tab as the glue dries. This will help give you a good start to lift up the dried glue.

The biggest issue is the time it takes to dry. But if you give it a go it can work. It may not be too cost effective unless you buy your tubes of glue (white school glue is what I used) from a $1.00 store.
Davidsss,

Crackiling records is not always grimne or dirt in the groves. Other things tha can cause crackles and things you can't really do anything about include:

Poor vinyl substrate. There were unscrupulously made LPs in the day using cheap vinyl and often contaminated vinyl.

Micro groove damage from a previous user who maybe handled albums poorly, had poorly maintained turntable and cartridge riding and damaging the groove. You can't see this damage with the naked eye.

Static build up and release as the cartridge pays. This is often a problem in drier climates as static build with lower humidity. You can try to do things to help reduces such static. Using a carbon fibre brush making sure you touch a metal object to ground yourself as you use the CF brush. You can use one of those static guns and also try to keep static from building if you live in a very dry climate buy employing a humidifier in the room.