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In Reply to: Advice on cleaning 78s? posted by M3 lover on April 22, 2007 at 11:28:36:
surfactant(sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate) as in a product called Labtone that was recommended for 78s in the following article:http://home.earthlink.net/~gnordenstam/RecordCollection/Cleaning.htm
A very similar surfactant is also contained in the Disc Doctor's Miracle Record Cleaner and is called triethanolammonium dodecylbenzenesulfonate.
Woolite was also recommended in the following series of links on Audiogon.com:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1124989009&read&3&4&
Be sure to read the responses as well, especially the following one on Woolite:
http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1124989009&openflup&11&4#11
I have not tried Oxy Deep on 78s or LPs yet, but it does sound promising. Oxy Magic, on the other hand, contains alcohol, so I would never use it on 78s. In addition to the hydrogen peroxide in Oxy Deep, there is glycol ether, some surfactants, perservatives, and water. I am not sure if the glycol ether is harmful to shellac in 78s, so maybe someone else on the asylum can help us here. I did purchase a bottle of just hydrogen peroxide from the drugstore thinking this would be a safer approach for 78s, but I have not tried it on a trashed 78 yet.
I sometimes prewash the 78s in the punchbowl as I described; treat the bad ones with buggtussel enzyme; then wash and rinse them again on my old Nitty Gritty 3.0 machine. However, all of this work will never overcome the damage done from metal needles and heavy tonearms. The only ones that I own that are totally quiet are classical 78s like old Victor recordings of Caruso, etc. that were probably played only once.
Follow Ups:
Thanks Bill.My real treasure and concern is with a Louie Armstrong All Stars album from Town Hall 1947, a four record set. This came from family and was played on a standard tt from the 50s and 60s, not the arm & hammer style of the Victrolas. However, they are dirty and grayish so best restoration will be important.
I also have a box of 78s that came with a floor model Victrola I got some time ago. Have not looked through all of those as I don't expect much considering how they were played. Likely to be a Caruso or two in there though.
I don't how to post multiple links in one letter. Maybe someone could help me here. Thanks, Bill.
Bill,The message box you type in here accepts standard HTML and stores it in the Asylum database, so that when the post is retrieved, the HTML you wrote is blended in with HTML the Asylum generates.
As you know, you can put a single link in the text box at the bottom and optionally configure a title to be used. If you don't add the title, the default is to use the text of the URL as the title.
To put your own link in the message, the syntax is:
< A HREF="a fully qualified URL starting with http://" > title < /A >
1. Upper case is not required.
2. The tag "A" can be any letter as long as the closing tag matches.
3. Don't add any extra spaces around HREF="some URL", or the angle brackets and the characters inside.
4. Make sure the URL is enclosed in double quotes.
6. Don't forget the closing tag - the < /A >So to have something like the following:
Cleaning and Preservation of Cylinders and Discstype in
< A HREF="http://home.earthlink.net/~gnordenstam/RecordCollection/Cleaning.htm" > Cleaning and Preservation of Cylinders and Discs < /A >
Regards,
Geoff
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