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In Reply to: RE: Overcoming Cleaning Frustrations posted by vanmeterannie on September 24, 2007 at 05:06:54
before each side. I have LPs I cleaned on my first VPI RCM 25 years ago that I've not had to reclean yet.
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to your record. Handle them only to put them on and take them off. Henry is 100%...well, maybe 99 and 44 one hundredths percent correct.
It's amazing how dirty a record can get sitting inside a new sleeve, inside its jacket with the jacket covered with a plastic sleeve.
Most times you just need that fiber brush, though.
I can't stop gushing about the disc doctor brushes, though. I've never had such quiet records!
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There is more medicine in a single song than any hospital.
better than the AQ?
Just so you don't go down the wrong route. The AQ brush is (mainly) for dry brushing records once they have been cleaned. The Disc Doctor brushes are for wet application of the cleaning fluid and/or rinses. They can't be used for dry brushing (although the AQ can be used for wet).
But I was shocked at how quiet my records got. There's no hope for real damage, but apparently the microfibers of the DD brushes must get stuff from the grooves that the nylon (HORROR!) VPI brush left behind.
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There is more medicine in a single song than any hospital.
I bought a VPI nylon brush for lightly scraping difficult grunge spots and found the brush to be basically worthless as designed. The brush is so stiff that I had to shave off about two thirds of the bristles before it could even be used. And even then the bristles don't even begin to get down into the record groove.
But you may have a different brush.
Tom
"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination." John Lennon
I often wondered why they chose a brush like that, but accepted it for years until lplvr told me about the DD brushes.
I had recently bought some microfiber brushes that I was using, they were made for painting wall edges. They did a better job than the nylon, but the DD brushes really surprised me with how quiet my records became with their use.
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There is more medicine in a single song than any hospital.
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