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Hi, I love your curiosities, but now I would like you to prove I am wrong about LP cleaning, more especially Picture Disc. I have tried a new way never seen before anywhere. My methodology consists in put salt cooking butter and spread over the disc, with a micro brush, I spread even further and after a good scrubbing I put some fairy liquid and spread it over the record, scrubbing some more time and finally rinse with warm water and dry with a towel. Never my records were clean like they are now. Believe me! Prove me I am wrong.😊 Sergio from Upper Norwood

To really clean a record you need pure distilled water in combination with a non-damaging cleaning fluid. The point of the cleaning fluid is to resolve the water into smaller droplets so that it will go into the grooves and resolve any dirt. Most fluids doesn't resolve the water enough to get into the grooves and not be of any help other than to clean the surface of the record.

If I watched a hundred of these videos I'd see a hundred different ways to clean vinyl. It would be impossible for it to be more confusing.

As an experiment I cleaned a old vinyl album with 190 golden grain alcohol and a paintbrush about a year ago in 2021. Album appears to be okay so far. I think Dawn dish detergent does a great job at cleaning, it would remove grease and grime from my hand that Gojo hand cleaner would not remove after a day of diesel mechanic work. I currently use tergitol for cleaning vinyl albums but they get rinsed under the sink if they are extremely dirty because I do not want to push contamination into the grooves.

I have recently bought a Billie Holiday shellac78, thank you so VERY much for that last tip seriously, I'm glad that I hadn't tried to clean it yet

Thanks so much. I just cleaned up my Ramones rocket to Russia album from 1977. Sounds so much better

I’ve been cleaning 🧼 my records lately with a micro fiber cloth and a little bit of water 💦. That’s it. Of course I have a brush that I use first. Also remember to clean your stylus too. Brushing forward only.

I add Tergikleen to a gallon of distilled water. U can add between 17-20 drops of Tergikleen to ur Distilled water mix

I clean records with a washingmachine detergent for wool in the knosti ,than clean them with fresh tapwater. After the cleaning dry them first a little bit with soft toiletpaper, place them on a newspaper and dry them with another piece of soft toiletpaper. Then i use a fibrecleaner to to get rid of dust and make them anti-static and the result sounds fine.

Do you have a video of your table set up behind you there? That would be helpful

Machine clean is good. Half price sale pro ject last year. Lately tho, the quota of second hand records with annoying scratches..has increased 75%. I take them back. ...if over 30$..so back to second hand and new cds.but it makes a great great every play cleaner!.

Dish soap and water work for me. Forget those expensive doo dads

Thank you for all of the wise tips!

Shellac is a given, but why no isopropyl alcohol (IPA) on vinyl? Polyvinyl chloride is the preferred storage medium for IPA because they both consider the other inert. Are you confusing IPA with acetone (Propan - 2 - One, Dimethyl Hetone) (which would certainly do a good job if you wanted to drink your records after cleaning!)?

Liking the Meters lp in the background, my German reissue is scratched 😢, great tips though and needs those brushes, thx

Really like this video, many handy tips. What was the name of the light that you use above your turntable please possibly where would I get it ?

Thanks for the important tips! ----- But I see a #11 tips, nobody mentions: Don't wear synthetic clothing during this cleaning process, even when manipulating records near record player it will attract dust or cat's hairs! 😉

I'm relatively new to looking after vinyl. What are your thoughts on the Orbitrac 3 Pro? I recently picked one up and I was wondering what your thoughts were

New improved OMO for front loaders.

I'm trying to clean records made in the 60s. Nothing seems to really work. I inspect them using a loupe or microscope after repeated cleaning. I always find what seems like hardened mould stuck between the grooves. I'm not sure how to get it out & I will not try doing it by mechanical/physical means. Any advice? Thanks

I have a Kirmuss Ultra Sonic Record Cleaning machine. Do you know if the G3 cleaner is compatible with the Kirmuss cleaning solution? I've read that some chemicals should not be mixed.

Why no narration when the video was speeded up???? Cheers, Ken

Also remember to clean your brand new records too. Get the factory gunk off before you play your records.

Thanks for the video. What is the picture behind the cleaner at 09:33? I'm thinking it's The Doors - where did you get it from and do they do other bands?

Can you purchase the Groove Washer Black Magic pad in the UK?

Best is a pro record-cleaning machine. You go to them. With your unloved long-players...

How about hand sanitizer?? Just curious.

None of these record cleaning videos show vinyl actually being cleaned. My video shows a actual record cleaning.

But what do you do when you get a brand new 180g record, clean it, and it still sounds noisy. My new copy of Automatic for the people which was brand new sounds rubbish. Even on my new project turntable

what about shellac records?

Wash em like dishes.. paper label dries fine..

You can wash microfiber cloths. You don't need to throw them out

I find nothing works better than alcohol when cleaning records

spelling mistake in title btw it says FILTY

Nice commercial.

Best Tip: Don't buy them in the first place.