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Hi Graham: Wow, thanks for this reply. I thought I was making a "safe" statement! Also, Duane, thanks for the detailed explaination in your separate posting. -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Newton" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Keith Monks cleaning fluids > Tom Fine wrote: > >> If Keith Monks makes fluid for your specific machine, then it's bound to >> work well. > > As the USA/Canada seller of the Keith Monks Dual Chemistry Archivist Record > Cleaning Machine for over 10 years, I really need to weigh in on this... > > After Keith's passing when Jon Monks took over the company, he introduced his > cleaning fluids and I asked him to tell me for my own assurances, what is in > them. His response was that he would hold that information at least for the > foreseeable future... but he did say the ingredients were "all natural". > Sulphuric acid is naturally occurring but I don't think I'd want my records > cleaned with it! Needless to say, I did not find the response acceptable! > > FYI: Duane Goldman (the Disc Doctor) prints on his bottles the chemical content > of his cleaning solutions, although it is not a recipe to make your own. > > This is, I believe, a US government requirement, particularly for poison > control center information with severe penalties and liabilities for > violations. If this is the case, I don't expect that you will find the Monks > solutions available in the USA until Jon Monks decides to divulge the information. > > There aren't really any "secrets" in the chemistry of cleaning solutions that > any good chemist couldn't tell you, but if you don't know what you are using, > then I suggest you DON'T USE IT! > > I covered a safe easy-to-prepare inexpensive cleaning solution (along with some > other cleaning suggestions) in the manual I wrote for the Keith Monks machines > before the Monks company offered their own. > > > > > ... Graham Newton > > -- > Audio Restoration by Graham Newton, http://www.audio-restoration.com > World class professional services applied to tape or phonograph records for > consumers and re-releases, featuring CEDAR's CAMBRIDGE processes. >