cleaning liquid for LPs


What is the proper cleaning liquid for LPs . How can we make them ?

farzad
I use a lab grade detergent from Fisher Scientific: VersaClean. It is specially formulated for plastics, and is ultra-sound compatible. Plus distilled water.

Scientific supply houses have to provide the real goods - audiophile not so much. Hence Fisher. Oh, and new sleeves are a good idea too, as ghost suggests.
I use the formula from the December 1996 Stereophile magazine.  I make it myself and use it everyday, for ten years now. My records are spotless and dead silent.

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I have vinyl from 1980 when I was a teenager that was cleaned once or twice with an alcohol based fluid back then that is immaculate and dead silent still today.

I make my own fluid using this recipe

1. Triple R-O filtered De-ionized water from Whole Foods
2. 99.9% MG chemicals isopropyl alcohol from Amazon
3. Ilfotol wetting agent from B&H Photo in N.Y.

https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/for-audiophiles/home-brew-cleaner-for-vacuum-rcms/

I use it with my VPI 16.5 machine then the record sleeves are replaced with Mobil Fidelity Original Master sleeves.
http://www.mofi.com/product_p/omrs.htm

I use an Audio Technica AT6012X Velvet Vinyl Record Cleaning Brush to lightly remove vinyl surface dust that settles from the room air before each play.