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VPI, Keith Monks, Others?
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I have seen old GE consoles that had a primitive built in record cleaner. The second picture in the link shows a chrome slot in front of the turntable. A record was placed there and spun while the vacuum was running.
John
This is why I am no longer bidextrous.
axolotl
nt
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
nt
available at all Walgreens, Woolworth, Woolco, and Wards (or any other store starting with a W)!
but no mention of cleaning the fingerprints she's adding to the mix in this ad!
most of those memories are etched in fog.
If you mean the first machine like the Keith Monks, i.e. wet-and-suck, and affordable enough to own your own machine, that would be the Nitty Gritty. As I recall the first machine came out in 1981/1982.
Opus 33 1/3
It was closer to the mid 70s in the US(I saw one at Gordon Holt's around then)and I believe it was based on a design by Percy Wilson from Gramaphone magazine.
There was Discwasher, not a wet and suck but it was reasonably effective. I still use one for touch up.
Then there was DustBug :-)
Bill's Audio Cave
Yes there were any number of ways to clean records before any of the machines. Before the Nitty Gritty we all used something like the Disc Washer but lusted for something like the Monks.
Nitty Gritty and VPI were the first to really scratch the itch!! They were the first to make owning your own machine affordable. I bought the original Nitty Gritty in 1981 and it is still going strong.
The granddaddy of all record cleaners might have been the Watts Parostatik Disk Preener, which dates to the 1960s I think. It was a velvet cylinder with a foam core that one moistened with water. The humidity released from the damp foam when you wiped dust off the record with the outer velvet layer was supposed to reduce static on the LPs.
Before the Watts, people used cloths to wipe dust off records. EMI sold one called "Super Emitex" that was supposed to have some sort of chemical on it.
nt
Still my favorite record cleaner. I have stocked up on these and have several NOS in original sealed packing.
When you have learned how to use the parostatik I think there is nothing better.
Rgds Jan
A little fuzzy roller that you moistened with Watts's fluid, and -- I believe -- a brush, mounted on its own little arm. It cleaned the record while you played it.
I'm rather certain I had one in the late 50's.
Hi Briggs
I know Cecil Watts also made the tonearm type cleaner you mention.
The Watts Parostatik disc preener I use looks like this. Se the pic.
Inside is a kind of spronge that you ocationally dip im distilled water. This keeps the cleaning pad moist wich will help pick up dust from the LP surface.
I also found a drawing of the construction of the disc preener. Rather cleaver I think.
Rgds Jan
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Beatnik's stuff http://web.me.com/jnr1/Site/Beatniks_Pictures.html
Who else!
Earliest I've seen is Percy Wilson in the '50s.That machine is of course the forerunner to the Keith Monks.
Myles B. Astor
Edits: 07/22/14
but we called it Wreck-O-Vac. it didnb't wet the record and seemed useless. i never saw an audiophile that owned one.
...regards...tr
Opus 33 1/3
It was reasonably effective at removing surface dust. It didn't do any real cleaning.
-Wendell
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Beatnik's stuff http://web.me.com/jnr1/Site/Beatniks_Pictures.html
there are pics in the link PLUS:
http://www.audioasylum.com/audio/vinyl/messages/101/1011829.html
from a couple of years ago.
...regards...tr
It just had brushes and antistatic brushes. You turned it on the LP went around and the brushed cleaned it and a fan blew the dirt or more like dust out. This thing didn't work as good as a Diskwasher pad. Funny thing I had a 45 player as a child that came in the same plastic clam shell.
Beatnik's stuff http://web.me.com/jnr1/Site/Beatniks_Pictures.html
Obviously a charlatan.
nt
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