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From: emrath@uiuccsb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: record cleaning - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 12-Oct-83 22:32:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 12 22:32:50 1983
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uiuccsb!emrath    Oct 12 17:48:00 1983

I have practically the same opinion about record cleaning systems -
an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I guess I didn't
post it because I figured I'd be hassled with flames. One time,
an old roommate of mine brought home a discwasher. We carefully
followed the directions in an attempt to clean a slightly dirty
record that he didn't care much about. The result was a disaster, much
worse than before (I don't know which fluid (D?) it was, or what we did wrong,
but it seemed that it was too easy to screw things up). In an attempt
to resurrect the record to playability, we washed the thing in warm
soap (dish variety) water, and then dried it with warm air from the
outlet of a tank vacuum (ought to be relatively clean air, right?).
Well, it did play better after that, but not as good as before we
started mucking with it. He ended up throwing the record away and
using the discwasher DRY ever since. I would like to add that I have
never used a ZERO-STAT or whatever. It seems that the cartridge/tonearm/
turntable may have a lot to do with whether or not static is a problem.
In my experience, in the set of {shure v15/2, stanton, micro acoustics,
and ortofon lm15} on {thorens, dual, sony} turntables, only the stanton
had serious static problems.  Anybody else notice this re static?

		Perry Emrath, Univ. of IL
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