Wood glue works great,and VPI machines are not a cheap outlay of cash for a lot of people,myself included.What I do,is apply the glue,and go away for 24-36 hours.You will find the glue has lifted up in a dried sheet that looks like a badly warped record with ruffled edges,leaving no residue,but with all the junk from the record surface on the dried glue.
Roger
> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 20:07:15 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] WSJ article on vinyl playbackl equipment
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> Yes! Here's how I see it. Duane and others make fluids designed to lift dirt out of the grooves.
> There are many methods and machines to scrub the grooves and rinse the record. If you really have so
> much time and so little intelligence that you want to put wood glue on a record and then pick it
> off, go to town. I'd rather wash the record and then listen to it. My method of choice is my VPI
> HW-17 machine, but there are less costly ways to do it. Given the number of records I've washed, the
> VPI ends up costing me about 25 cents per platter, and dropping every year (more platters get
> washed, lowering average cost per platter). By the time that machine wears out, I figure I'll be
> down below 10 cents a platter. It's built like a tank and I can't seem to stop spinning vinyl.
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
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> From: "Milan Milovanovic" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 6:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] WSJ article on vinyl playbackl equipment
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> > >
> >> One thing I DON'T recommend is trying any of the foolish DIY "conversions" for a shop vac into a
> >> record cleaner. I expect you'll ruin a few platters on the way to figuring out that's a bad idea.
> >> There also seems to be some mythology out there on the web about using rubber cement. Good luck
> >> with that.
> >>
> >> -- Tom Fine
> >>
> >
> > I, myself, also never will use wood glue method for cleaning records because my experience tells
> > me that it will react with vinyl, no matter what growing number of "supporters" (especially in
> > audiophool domain) tells you.
> >
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