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Lets say I have a bit of mildew and clean it with Disc doc, then vacuum it, then use SVW and vacuum. I dont know if RRL SDC or SVW will remove mildew.
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It's just that relatively newer formulations of deep cleaners by companies like RRL/MFSL and L'Art Du Son don't leave much of a residue from the get go. You also need to be somewhat careful about DD around the LPs label.. it can mess some of them up.. so keep away from it and dab with a hanky if any get on the center label.If you use an RCM and DD Miracle Cleaner as your deep cleaner your cleaning method only needs to follow with a couple of rinsing steps. Sounds more tedious than it really is. I get the same results with my method, using the DD as I do with RRL/MFSL Super Deep Cleaner.. i only need to add one additional distilled water rinse to the whole thing.
The DD cleaner is a nice mold/mildew killer, but you want to use a good, "let it sink in" mold inhibitor/cleaner like Buggtussel's Vinylzyme in the process as well. Vinylzyme also helps do away with the nasty anti-mold/mildew chemicals that are present on new LPs from the pressing plants as well.
To wit:
DD Cleaner (vac. off)
Thorough Distilled Water rinse (vac off)
Vinylzyme (which is roughly 90% distilled water - let soak 1-2 minutes and vac off)
RRL Super Vinyl Wash/MFSL - (thorough rinse, vac off)I use a combination of DD brushes (MFSL brushes as same) and Audioquest carbon fibre dry brushes (work wonderfully for wet cleaning as others here have stated) and i get superlatively quiet backgrounds.
To sum up, if you don't already own a bunch of DD Sol., i would use the RRL SDC instead.. it doesn't require the tedious extra distilled step and any assoc. issues with DD residue. With several rinse type steps following the DD and the use of good RCM (i use a 16.5), i wouldn't fear using the DD at all. I have a bunch left over from the old days bust it out anytime i'm out of RRL SDC.
Frankly, i find it works better than the Super Deep Cleaner at getting off tough fingerprints and other nasties. Even trade if you ask me and really clean vinyl either way.
Grab some Vinylzyme concentrate and AQ brushes though.. made backgrounds a whole new level of quiet with these additions.
My $0.02
Marc
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I use DD followed by SVW & 2 distilled water rinses. No problems to date. A machine is a big help in removing all of the DD.
RRL will remove anything and everything under the sun, but NOT DD fluid residue; best to throw those albums away and chock it up to experience.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
Was Russell referring to Yeats?Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."Second Coming" W.B. Yeats, pub. 1920
This is a joke right? Throw out LPs due to that scourge.. poor Dr. Duane's Miracle Record Cleaner.. the stuff's not that bad.If you have a RCM and follow it with rinse steps, it's still a terrific solvent and i have used it extensively as a deep cleaner and found no sonic signature remains at all. I find it cleans just as well, if not better than RRL/MFSL's Super Deep Cleaner.
I would avoid using it without an RCM, i.e. using the "air dry", drain rack method. Otherwise it's just another deep cleaner that needs to be rinsed off thoroughly.
Trying to get guys on this forum to throw away LPs.. where guys ponder how many plates of glass and how hot the over has to be to get some of those nasty dishwarps flattened out, is futile.
You'd have better luck getting them to covert to an all IPod system.
The best solution to remove DD is rinse, rinse, and rinse...
JB
I thought of trying the DD to see if it would remove mildew and then using RRL to rinse. Maybe thats a flawed idea. I don't know. I could try both.
I've used l'Art du Son after DD without a problem. I did use a water rinse in between, just in case some chemicals from each interacted in a bad way, but I don't think there's any real risk.
JB
with DD fluid.
Henry
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