Record cleaning vs Last Record Preservative

Red, As you stated "Last Preservative", it is used to lengthen the life of an LP. LAST isn't a Filler, & should only be used on a thoroughly clean LP. You might want to mention your entire cleaning equipment, & cleaning regiment.

The machine is a manual Nitty Gritty. I turn the records by hand. I replaced the felt pad at the vacumn suction slot, and I am using Last disposable brushes and a Nitty Gritty brush. I have cleaned about 50 LPs is all. Maybe time to start using Last disposable brushes and pitching every ten records or so. A new one every record would be a real expense drag. I have been scrubbing the records back and forth manually with the grooves, and then using the machine to vacumn each time. Three washes with the Super Cleaner formula and vacumn each time between washes, and then same three cycles for Regular RRL fluid. Usually spin the record 4 times or so on the vacumn.

I read the response from Davehrab and the link above. Interesting. I may try this new cleaner. Seems to make sense to me. Anyone else tried Vinyl Zyme Gold???

R.

Over vaccuming or over drying can cause static to build up on the record surface. I never go over three rotations, and less if possible. I'm not really a fan of Nitty Gritty record cleaners, but I don't know that I would point my finger at it as the source of the problem.

Let me clarify my earlier post.

Doug Deacon was right to correct me, in that a vacuum is not merely "for convenience."

HOWEVER . . . .

The Disc Doctor instructions call for a post-cleaning dry using a clean, soft cotton sheet, then a rinse, then another dry with a different sheet, then a final air dry. Now that sounds like a big pain in the arse, but in truth once you get it all set up, getting through a bunch of records is quite easy--much like doing the dishes.

For those of us who can't yet spring for a good vacuum machine (and in truth I think that I will hold out for the Loricraft), it gets us very close.

And certainly shouldn't ADD noise to records.

All the best,
Steve

Steve,
Before the Loricraft OR the Shop Vac I used microfiber cloths for drying. That worked pretty well, nearly as well as the Shop Vac in fact, actually better if the vacuum felts were overdue for changing.

Your, "much like drying the dishes" analogy rings true, too true! I used to drape my drying cloths over the pulled-out upper rack of the (empty) dishwasher. That gave them air to dry quickly, which microfiber does much better than cotton. Records went in a countertop dish rack, like everyone uses I suppose.