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RE: That alcohol is real difficult to obtain these days. You're lucky.

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In Reply to: RE: That alcohol is real difficult to obtain these days. You're lucky. posted by alaskahiatt on September 01, 2020 at 18:15:20

97, 98, 99 or 99.9. If it 99.9 I would add in a little less than if it was 97.

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It's hard to really know. I have always desired to use pure products - alaskahiatt 23:37:53 09/01/20 (2)
like the industrial or medical grade alcohol mentioned by Ivan. As an example, I used to use Photo Flo 200 as my nonionic surfactant, but I now use pure Triton X-100. Photo Flo 200 has other ingredients for which I know nothing about their effect on polyvinyl. A photographic wetting agent like Photo Flo was used by Mr. Watts in the 50s for his series of record cleaning products.
- Basically what the "Spin Clean" method does nt - Cougar 06:17:23 09/02/20 (1)
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  - That's how I cleaned records in a punchbowl for 20 years. After rinsing under - alaskahiatt 11:17:28 09/02/20 (0)
    the faucet and pouring distilled water over the groove area, I just air dried them in the rack pictured below. I always figured drying with some sort of cloth would only add dust back onto the record.
    
    I then found a Nitty Gritty 3.0 in a thrift store in the 90s, and the punchbowl now sits idle.

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