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Anybody using the last record preservative

Back in the early '80s I started using last record preservative now here 40 whatever years later just picked up another bottle because I noticed all my new records have a lot of noise with the exception of a few analog Productions and some Rhino records are pretty quiet but the most have a lot of surface noise long story short picked up a new bottle of last record preservative put it on one of my records and OMG the difference is amazing my system nowadays is way more resolving than it used to be noise floor has dropped into the basement and the musical and the music has jumped to the foreground

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Maybe 3 in 1 oil would be less volatile than WD40 and have less overspray.

I know of an individual who’s been using WD-40 for at least a decade in this way; that should be an eye blink for chemical integrity / lifespan of vinyl. Ingredients like “white spirits” and the liquid-like state of the film, once applied and made available to the pick-up / hollow cantilever, had me head-scratching and chin-rubbing. I haven’t employed WD-40 this way despite what wonders I’ve heard it do in person (for old noisy records).

Makes me wonder the ingredients in Last and not just how it would affect the vinyl, but the pick-up, too. Should be much easier for folks in a hundred years since that’ll be ample time to assess for a cartridge and “workin’ disc’s” lifespan alike.

WD-40 on LP’s from the ‘60s sure did sound good as on old door hinges, though.

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