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What's in your record cleaning machine????

Vinyl recipies??

What do you use?

I use a solution of triple distilled H20, and a double whammy of Tergitol's.

Tergitol. Tergitol 15-S-3 is an oil soluble surfactant and 15-S-9 is a water soluble surfactant. Use 0.25 part of Tergitol 15-S-3 and 0.25 parts of Tergitol 15-S-9 per 100 parts of distilled water. (Canadian Recording Archives uses this as well)

I also use the (FORBIDDEN) combo of 98% isopropanol and water at 50/50 mix with a small amount of lysol and a few drops of surfactant. I'm a chemist so I have some options that you won't but Johnsons baby shampoo works well.

Add about 5ml Lysol to a 50/50 mix of the water and alchol, and then add about 15 drops of Johnson's baby shampoo.

With the shampoo less is more. I have used 5 drops and it's not quite enough so now I standarize on about 8 in a gallon.
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dopogue
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I thought you were asking what's in the machine itself. I confess to some curiosity about that since my prehistoric Nitty Gritty (serial # 134) has no way to empty out the water and collected schmutz. When it finally conks (going on 21 years so far), I figured I'd invite the media and open it up, sorta like Al Capone's vault.

No, it doesnm't smell.
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jmcgrogan2
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I'll second Dan_ed. Record Research made a real believer out of me too.

Regards,
John
xiekitchen
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Dopogue: know what you mean, just where does all the fluid go? it rarely if ever puddles out on the bottom tray. I've got a Nitty Gritty 2.5fi I think, with the oak sides. broke the center spindle, had to buy a kit to fix it, still going strong after 15 yrs.
aroc
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Record Research Super Deep Cleaner and Super Vinyl Wash. AA Record Doctor II RCM.
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