I am used to using a large volume of Disc Doctor fluid folowed by a lot of rinse water because if you leave any of the DD fluid on the record it will dry up and leave a residue. I follwed with the same amount of vinyl wash using the same regime.Ī massive transformation in background noise! I went from a used record that I was dissapointed in due to surface noise to a record that was dead quiet using barely enough fluid to even dampen the record. I first applied about 10 drops of the deep cleaner and worked it in with my Audioquest carbon fiber brush turning the record several times in both directions and then vacuumed it off. I put the record on straight away and was greeted by quite a bit of surface noise so I decided it was time to give the RRL a trial on my VPI 17. The RRL fluids were also awaiting in the mail. I just returned from Japan where I purchased some used vinyl including what appeared to be a mint Japanese pressing of Art Pepper "Live in Tokyo 79," one of my favorites. I then received an offer from a fellow member offering to send me some of these mystical fluids free of charge to try for myself. I responded I didn't believe that these fluids could possibly live up to the hype accorded them. Several people folowed up basically calling me an idiot and singing the praises of RRL fluids. They'll send you off somewhere, you'll answer some questions, and in a couple of weeks you'll get more than you bargained for.Distilled water saying that using deionized water was a bunch of bunk. Now, you'll probably say, just where the hell can I get Tergitol 15-S-7? Well you can search for it and buy it in small quantities, or you can call Dow Chemical up, pretend you're a business, and ask to whom do you speak to in order to obtain an evaluation sample. Since there's no preservative, for example disodium EDTA (it's in a lot of food products, cosmetics, etc.), it's kept refrigerated. The government uses a solution of 2 mL of Tergitol 15-S-7 surfactant added to 4 liters of distilled water (1 gallon is close enough) for cleaning records and other material in their archives. There are 10's of thousands of different surfactants, many of which can be used interchangeably with no signficant performance difference. That job can be done any number of ways ranging from solvents, like isopropyl alcohol, to surfactants. In order to clean something, you've got to 'wet' it. If I move back to using it, I'll get a vacuum cleaner and do 1st a wet cleaning with a solution of decent distilled, a drop or two of Kodak photoflow, and either a small bit of ammonia or cheap isopropyl alcohol.Īnd a 2nd wet wash using strictly my best distilled water by itself in order to remove as much of the photoflow/ammonia/isopropyl-alchol as possible. I've also seen a much less expensive steam distiller, but have no clue as to how much water is uses in order to produce "distilled" water.įWIW, I still have some top quality vinyl from the past (a lot of it direct to disc). I've owned/used an expensive fractional distiller (uses a lot of water when you run it from a fawcet, but next to none if you use a source such as a full bathtub and a small pump to pressure water from the tub through the fractional distiller and back into the tub. My point(s) were/are that low cost bottled "distilled" water at your friendly supermarket tends to vary in dissolved solids content.
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