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From: mitel!uunet.uu.net!mitel!spock!kim@uunet.UU.NET (Kim Letkeman)
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Subject: Re: Record Cleaning Solution
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Date: 26 Sep 90 13:00:54 GMT
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In article <6585@uwm.edu>, KLUDGE@AGCB1.LARC.NASA.GOV writes:
| Don't use alcohol on vinyl; it will tend to leach out the
| plasticizers in the vinyl over the long run.  Probably it's no more
| risk than using hydrocarbon oils on condoms, but I don't want to
| find out.

The cost of a few albums lost pales in comparison of the potential
cost of a failed condom ... one must assume you meant strictly the
statistical risk of damage vs failure.

I had no idea that this problem with alcohol-based cleaners existed
(and I'm new to this group, so I don't know if the subject has been
beaten to death yet.) Does this mean I should chuck out my bottles of
LAST?  (It's old, but it still works in reducing surface noise and
static.)

Kim