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many people will chide you about all the contaminants in tap water. Those contaminants are only important if you let the water dry on the record. If you vacuum it off before it has a chance to dry significantly, no residue will be left.

However, the above said, I do wash my records with a cleaning solution to get off any fingermarks or stuck-on stuff (it goes with the terrotory of buying used records). I then rinse the record with tap water, as all the gunk is in suspension or solution, and a fast stream from the tap is very good a removing all the cleaning liquid. That leaves a record that is clean, but wet with tap water. At this point I could go directly to the vacuum, and I have done that; I don't see any residue from the tap water afterward. But if I do that, it means that the fabric lips on my RCM get wet with tap water, and the collection box has tap water in it; residue will form in these places. So I have a spray bottled with distilled water, and after the strong tap water rinse, I do a quick rinse using the sprayed distilled water. The result is that my RCM only ever sees distilled water, and the lips and collector don't gunk up. It takes me only 3-5 minutes to completely clean a record as I've described.

Yes, record cleaning fluids do cost something, but it is only a few cents per record, much less than the cost of most of the records. I've found that even the cheapos like Woolite Oxyclean work very well, but I refer to use RRL or DD; they've been tested on a lot of records.

Joe



Edits: 05/08/12

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