Record Cleaner won't clean?? Or is it me?


Hello,

I have a MUSIC HALL WCS-2 record cleaner... and I can't for the life of me get it to actually clean my records... I am using Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - Super Record Wash and my process is as follows:

 

I spin up the Music Hall with some vinyl.... I pour a nice dab of the Sound Lab Record Wash on it, use a Carbon Fiber Anti-Static Vinyl Brush to spread it around, for maybe 10 or so rotations, and then I turn on the vacuum of the Music Hall until it is nice and dry. 

I put the record on my player, and I am rewarded with still a bunch of pops and dust and it's just a bit of a nuisance. 

Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing a step in the process? Am I too much a perfectionist and I should just live with a bit of the dust? 

How best to keep a 80% "Clean" record clean? So that I don't have to do this constantly?

 

Thank you!

R. 

whyrichard

@oberoniaomnia

Notice that the calculation in the record cleaning book are flawed as it goes from mass/weight to thickness without including density/specific gravity (6/0.5x12, particularly at value around 1 or 1/1=1). That's why those calculations are off by a factor of around 20K. I provided the back of the envelope math in a previous post. No need to sweat a few percent here or there when we are talking four orders of magnitude, give or take.

The calculations are not off by a factor of 20k.  They are off by a factor of 10, and this was delineated in these posts:

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Hey OP

after reading the different post above, I concur that cleaning with a brush then vacuum clean is the better process. I came to that conclusion myself as that procedure gave me the best results. Brush and less vacuum

@antinn 

The sooner everybody adopts the metric system, the better!  Then we'd only have to worry about the position of the decimal point ...