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From: rzdz@fluke.UUCP (Richard Chinn)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: record cleaning
Message-ID: <38@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Oct-83 12:55:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 10 12:55:57 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Oct-83 02:12:26 EDT
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, Wash
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re: record cleaning

I haven't had much luck with liquid cleaning systems. They seem to leave my
records much worse than before. I haven't tried D4, as D1 and D2 worked so
poorly. My current solution, which seems to work well:

    Fanatically guard your record collection. Offer immediate execution as
    an alternative to life without fingers to those who even dare to put
    their filthy, greasy, oily, contaminated fingertips on *your* records.

    Use no liquid cleaners as none of them *really* work.

    Remove the record from its jacket for playing and immediately return it
    to its jacket afterwards.

    Use the dust cover of your turntable, it does work.

    Use a zerostat to neutralize the static charge, if present.

    Use a Decca brush to remove surface debris before playing.

    Keep yer filthy mitts off of the surface of the record.

    Don't let the kids muck with your records. Make em buy their own.

    Return records to the store if they have fingerprints on them.

I've bought at least one of the various record cleaning gadgets that have
come onto the market in the last 20 years. I gave up at least 5 years ago
after buying a diskwasher and being dissappointed in it. 

If I bouught a liquid job at all, I would buy a monks machine. Several
stores in the Seattle area have monks machines to *rent* so I would come up
with a suitably grubby patient on which to do a test run.

Bottom line: Keep your records clean, then they don't need cleaning. Keep
	     your mitts off of the surfaces. Don't eat breakfast on them.
	     Keep your records in their jackets. Liquid cleaners don't work.

Rick Chinn @ Fluke
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206 356 5232