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From: bilver!bill@uunet.UU.NET (Bill Vermillion)
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Subject: Re: record cleaning fluids
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Date: 20 Sep 90 12:48:54 GMT
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In article <6427@uwm.edu> FCFIFRAGA%CIUC2.UC.RCCN.PT@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (FRANCISCO AMARAL F FRAGA) writes:
>A friend of mine has a good professional cleaning machine (vaccum type).
>I would like to use it, but no one sells good record cleaning fluids
>in this country nowadays. Because this liquids are usualy extremely
>flamable it is quite difficult to import them, but our chemmical lab
>has lots of solvents and cleaners and I could easily made it, if I
>knew how. ( I want to clean my records, not to solve them).
>
>If someone has a good formula (please state if has been tested ) plese
>e-mail it to me. I have been told that destilled water and alchool with
>a few drops of a wetting agent will do the job. What do you think about?

I recall reading that that is what all the pre-mixed solutions do.  Make
sure that the alcohol contents is not over 25% in the final solution.
There needs to be enough to disolve any residual oils, and much more would
probably only hasten the leaching of the plastic.  Water, being the
universal solvent, is a good pairing with the alcohol.  And the wetting
agent makes sure the water will penetrate to the bottom of the groove.

When the cheaper units first hit the markets about 10 years ago (eg VPI and
Nitty Gritty while the Monks was still way over $1000) one of the reviewers
in one of the trades, and I think it might have been Audio magazine,
suggested using 1 quart of 100 proof vodka to 1 quart of water - but I'd be
sure to test it on something that was not important before trying it.


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