Please put your other vinyl cleaning video back up, it was so calming and relaxing.

Came here for cleaning tips. But more amazed you got that Queen album for $.50!!! Living in California I wouldn't be able to get the sleeve for $.50 😭😫

You are one of those youtubers that I will always watch every new upload

I just tried the vinegar window cleaner- same one from Dollar Tree- on a Disney Christmas record that I had been given 40 years ago as a gift (that would have made me about 3 or so). The amazing thing is that the cleaner salvaged the record, reducing the pops and lifting so much dirt that it now plays properly after I had written it off years ago. This was such a gift.

I love this gentleman.I could listen to him all day.I don't know how to explaine it but his voice is really smooth and rarely changes tone.Top man.

coolest coffee mug ever.

I'm more amazed that you got that Queen album for 50 cents! Here in California that would be priced so much higher. It seems no matter how many thrift stores I frequent, I never find anything besides old church choir records lol.

Thank you. Everything you post is so valuable. Best to your family and you during these scary times !!

Hey man. Your videos rock. You are such a genuine human and it is great to see that. Keep doing what you are doing you have such a passion for your hobbies and it’s so awesome you share that with everyone. Cheers!

Love cleaning and restoration videos. Helps me calm down in the evening.

11:53 that was impressive

Very nice and friendly demonstration on how to clean vinyl records the easy and very profitable simple means. I understand you very well, I also have lived better times than nowadays..! Thank you for your very practical video.

Greetings from England......loved the video,the soft brush is such a simple but great idea. I`ll be checking out the £1 stores over here for cleaning soloutions etc.... thanks for sharing this with us .Power to you sir !!!

I just left your other video on cleaning! Think I will combine things and head over to the dollar tree...thanks again!

Thanks so much for the videos. Appreciate you trying to help help out the ole budget. Keep up the good work.

Aloha oddbox topper, Thank you for the tips on record cleaning on a budget. Always enjoy all your videos. And I really enjoy your taste in music you listen to a beautiful array of sounds. Mahalo ed.

very down to earth dude, one of my favorites

Good pick Queen ALBUM Jazz is good shape

Mr. Topper, I dig your channel, during the Covid thing, i went to play my old records, some needed cleaning, what i tried was, taking Dawn dishwashing soap, 1 part Dawn to 9 parts Distilled water, and and going around in a circular motion, with a Microfiber cloth, several times, then rinsing it very well with Distilled water, and drying it off, it worked very well, it is very inexpensive, Keep the great video's coming, Peace Man, Cousin Figel

Cheers! Love your videos man, keep it up.

I swear I’m on my 4th video and I can’t get enough. Really dig your mugs, I have a thing for mugs myself. Found most of the ones I have at local thrift stores.

I almost never see rock albums in thrift stores, and I visit them OFTEN!

Yeah, cheers and many Beers.🙂 Cool video's you have. I Will try one of the cleaning methods. Cheers from the Netherlands.

Topper you are the man.....Thank's for the advice.

Great idea. I also use a combo of distilled water and vinegar with micro fibre towels. 😊

This man cooks up some MAD beats

I love your videos,sir, grettings from spain and keep it rockin, please!

Never bought Queen...it was just around anyway. But that jazz album caught my interest. Some day some scientist will say the dust in record grooves is like a time machine, and it holds the DNA and essence of all who lived with it, like the notion that sand grains are like film grain and holds images from ancient time. So don't scratch your head, that dandruff will wind up on the dark web...

💛💛 so nice to meet you Sr. 💛💛

Very good video, and useful. Thumbs up. I'm using such microfiber clothes on my computer screen. I am going to choose the window cleaning liquid that sprays unto the record's surface. Then wipe with a towel, then a microfiber cloth. I like saving money wherever possible.

I was in a modern bathroom today. Crazy modern. You get a square bar code from the barrister, if no one is in the bathroom, (there's a monitor on the wall outside that not only let's you know someone is in there, it has your number up on the screen, and it tells you if someone else is ahead in line, but they don't have to stand in line, they can hang out and keep an eye on that screen. So, you finally wave your barcode under a scanner, sexy red light, and the door magically opens by itself, and then closes by itself after you. You wave along the side of the toilet to flush. Too much! But the trippiest part is the faucet. pipe comes toward you over the sink, then splits off into a bar going left and a bar going right. These bars still hover over the sink. You slide your hands under the center area, and water shoots down on your hands. You pull your hands back, and then slide them under the left and right bars, and warm air blasts out of the bars as you slide your hands around. So, it's not like a Dyson, but even more modern. But that blast of warm air was telling me...this is what I want to blow onto my damp cleaned records. Not hot enough to warp them. But the intensity of that bar of warm air would be the best way to finally remove particles still sitting in grooves. Right now, that sink would work for my 45's, with no changes at all.

Rest in peace my friend

That makes me less paranoid about cleaning my fathers old vinyl. Need to get round doing it and giving them a listen

Cool mug man 😎

the lcd works great been using it for years

Dawn dish soap (Called fairy here in Australia), warm water, scrub-a-dub-dub! Rinse, then rinse again with distilled or Demin water, dry, and stand dry. Then play. :)

Lovely, relaxing, informative video. Guess I had better stop using the dishwasher for mine. They slide so easily between the plates.

Nice, relaxing informative video, skål from Copenhagen :)

Vinegar and water that's what I use. Have used the Dollar Tree Awesome Window Clean liquid to clean my 45s. I have a AMI Rowe jukebox so my 45s are very important to me. 1st Use an compressed air to blow off any dust from 45s that I purchase 2nd Brush off any loose dirt with a painter's brush 3rd Mist the grooves with the vinegar mixture 4th Then use a sponge or a Microfiber to clean in a circle 5th Dry off 6th Insert into jukebox and enjoy My only thought on this video is not to lay a dirty side of the vinyl on the towel. I clean all my 45s and albums while holding them in my hand or against my clean tshirt that I am wearing.

Side one , love it . Lets all go too the Drive Inn and Budweiser , joints .

What!? No poster? Too bad as it is pretty cool. These are interesting cleaning ideas that I will try on some of my 50 cent records I get.

Love the Beatles mug.

Good cleaning tips! I use the duster. lol

Rest easy, Topper.

Nice cup!!!!

Dude nice guitars~

Great stuff 😃👍🏻🇦🇺

Saludos y BENDICIONES desde Puerto Rico

What happened to his other cleaning ones?

I've actually used the same exact LCD cleaner many many times and let me tell you that works really well. Obviously you smile sometimes you need that good deeds clean that sometimes you hit it lucky and you only need that good surface clean and you're all set. And currently I'm doing it the same exact way that you are and literally the same towels so I love this video be mainly because of that but these videos are awesome though.

Good job Sir

People if your going too clean your records aka vinyl .buy the proper cleaner . 19.99 for record doctor cleaner and it cleans like a champ . The cleaner makes one full gallon of cleaner . Don't make that diy cleaner you'll ruine your records in time break down the plasimer in the vinyl . You can use a small amount of methonal in the cleaner but good cleaners like audio intelligent #6 one step has menthonal in it .

I would easily get $20 for that Queen record here in Australia.

Get an 100% polyester plush fleece piece of cloth and wipe your records before and after you play them. Then if any record needs wet cleaning i use 20% alocohol in distilled water, without surfactant and spray a microfiber, then wipe, just to get the surface clean. The grooves are cleaned by the stylus and then the cloth i use will attract the microdust.

Thanks a lot

his little oop gets to me haha 6:33

In the early days we didn t had those fancy recordcleaners with special soaps etc. We had hand and dishsoap or the oldest cleaners in the world,water,soda and vinegar. Nobody said,,you are doing it all wrong

I use a few drops of clear dishwashing liquid on a sponge to clean my records. All is needed is a few drops, wet the sponge with warm water and clean the record in a circular motion. Then rinse. The first thing I do after rinsing is to completely dry the label so the water doesn't have a chance to soak through and damage it over time. I usually don't use label protectors, unless the label(s) is already damaged. But the vast majority of the time, I don't need the label protectors as long as I completely dry the labels (and I have been doing this for some time now, with no problems with labels coming loose in the slightest). Then I use a microfiber cloth to get at the crud in the grooves. Finally, I dry and polish the record with a towel. This method only takes 5 or 6 minutes to do. It literally costs about 2 cents a record to clean, since the sponge will remain soapy enough for several records. For those who would say, "this doesn't deep clean it like a Spin Clean (or another record cleaning system or machine) does", my answer is that it cleans it well enough for me. And that's what's ultimately important--that the record is cleaned and sounds satisfactory to the listener's ears.

You should play the record before and after. Who cares what they look like, it's what they sound like!

Bargain find a Queen album at that price, I'm nuts on Queen greetings from England. I think one or two of my LPs have specks of stubborn dirt , despite looking after them. I'm thinking I've got white vinegar here, can get it for about 39p in supermarkets, I might mix it with some ironing/distilled water, can't run to the cost of one of those vac machines!!!

Very nice mthods. Vinegar will actually inhibit molds, and the preservative i included to actually prevent the vinegar (acetic acid) form reacting with oxygen absorbed by the fluid. So it's all safe and good. :-)

i have that same spry, smells strong of vinegar. But this contains additional preservative that isn't named only mentioned on the ingredients. Those particles washing over the vinyl, leaving miniscule but present film particles in the grooves. Those particles of preservative chemicals are now transfered to the stylus as it glides along its path. I would only recommend this if somebody plans on using a beat up kit to play those hazy, filmy records tainted from dollar tree cleaner.

I like the look of both sides... I wonder how it sounds. That record is worth more than what you paid for it.

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The carbon fiber brushes leave small scratches on your records. At least that's what I experienced with a Static Off brush by AM. I used it once and then put it away. I don't recommend it.

How did it sound after the cleaning??? you should do a video on used vintage stereo equipment !! Cheers!!!

Привет музыканту ! Здорого у вас моют,хорошо,что есть для этого простые вещи

Good video, I'll have to keep the LCD cleaner in mind. I bet most of the record cleaning products are made with alcohol and distilled water. I say that because I have a Disc Washer 3 & 4 system, I think now they are called a Groove Washer, anyway, whenever I used it I would always note a familiar smell, I believe it's the alcohol. Of course they don't note the ingredients in their product, but that's my best guess. Note I had to look up Disc Washer, I don't know how reliable this is, but you can read about it here: www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?/topic/16001-discwasher-d4-fluid-anybody-know-what-it-is/

Did you remove your older video? I liked having it available as an alternative method in case I can't find the right spray bottle by itself.

thanks

distilled water and a little liquid silicon spray ..

Analogis clean (Lenco clean) but with Vetril liquid, from 50 years and for the rest of my life !!!

Just wash the records in a dish pan. Warm water and Palmolive soap. Use a car wax applicator to wash it rinse and put it on soft towel and dry with micro fiber cloth. Totally clean.

I've going thrue your video's uo've posted but, I'm wondring what gear you using. Is it posible to give us a tour? E.G. what amp, turntable speakers and so on.

some luke warm water and 2 or 3 drops of washing up liquid in a bottle with a self skoosher on it and a couple of micro fiber cloths and your good to go.

Have to mention, that of most bargain bin records I find, dirt and grime aren't the problem, it's scratches. Don't know about you but I am finding, very, very few good records in the thrift stores, but all kinds of great deals on CDs. I think people are ripping them and and getting rid of the hard copies. That's the beauty of of a cd and you don't have to deal with all this cleaning baloney.

2-3 pint of water drops of dish soap will remove static from most plastics including records

More vids!

If you have a problem with static try "used fabric sheets". i swear by them. dont use new ones. i`d say run them through the dryer twice and your good to go. rub down your platter than rub them on your vinyl before using a Carbon Fiber Anti-Static Brush. its the best.

Hey there, have you deleted the other cleaning video?

I was hoping you'd play the record and see how they sound. If you have what are your thoughts? You mentioned wood glue. Seems the jury is out on that one, besides it takes almost a whole bottle to do one record. Too expensive. I'm about to try the Scrubbing Bubbles method. You should give that a try. May your mug stay full!

What happened to your other video on cleaning records? Your method really worked for me.

I actually heard that vinegar is good for records, I was also told it prevents mold from growing. There’s so many opinions I don’t know who to believe anymore. That stuff looks great where do you buy it?

And usually when people are done cleaning records they have astatic leftover where she is obviously picked up through the stylist and it sounds like shit. So the lens cleaner works really good to get rid of that at the very least. And then I use my audioquest microfiber brush 15 bucks on Amazon and let me tell you it's amazing.

I can relate to a guy looking for a good deal

Yeah I always looking for cheap cleanning stuff to wash vinyls!!! Until now everything is good the point is get rid of static, thanx pal

hey @oddboxTopper , thx for the video Im new to vinyl and I wanted to ask you which method was better for you to clean the LPs(window cleaner or the LCD cleaning kit) ? And one question. If the vinyl is new do you recommend to clean it like this (because of the static,...). I hope you answer my question :) br

YOU REALLY FOUND A QUEEN RECORD AT GOODWILL FOR 50 CENTS WOW I WISH I HAD THAT LUCK

I want the guitar.

I miss the original video.

That gibson in the corner is sweet! What year?

Surprised you didn’t use the ole paint brush thingy

Topper !!! Sorry i dont understand english very well. what ingredient in the firt part of this video ? Vinegar and water ? Sorry again. Love your videos from Argentina !!!

Would you show us how to clean the stylus too?

Hi. I understand you deleted your other cleaning videos. Could you tell me the formula for the one using distilled water, isopropanol alcohol and jet dry again? I've almost run out and need to make another batch.

I'm heading to dollar tree aMigo!🌮😬🌮😬😬yeehaaaaa!!!

You should've done a sound test prior to cleaning each side so we can compare the difference. I think you'd be better off using a brush too, to get into the grooves. Wiping the surface only does half the job.

Where'd the other cleaning videos go? They've been deleted by him. Quite sad, they helped me sleep.

how do you clean a guitar ? can you show this ? or a keaybord

If you want to avoid copyright try playing you're albums on 45 rpm or backwards just to show how it sounds before and after cleaning