Best Record Cleaning Fluid


Greetings All,

I’ve spend the last few days searching and reading about record cleaning fluids for my cleaning machine (Okki Nikki).  Wow - there are a lot of options out there.  Many more than I originally thought.  Some real esoteric stuff that costs a pretty penny.  I’m currently going through my entire collection, cleaning it, listening to it and adding it to a Discogs DB.  Want to finally know how many I have and have a list of them.  But doing this has resulted in me going through cleaning fluid rather quickly.

So many options, so many perspectives on what are the best fluids.  What do you all say.  I understand that alcohol is a no-no for fluids, but I can’t find out if some of them include alcohol or not.  Currently using up the fluid that came with the machine, but no where can I read it if has bad ingredients.

The 2-stage or 3-stage cleaning systems are not going to happen.  I did get a bottle of Revolv that I was told was good, and use if for new high quality pressings (as opposed to those I bought in high school).

Anyway, would appreciate some perspectives on good quality record cleaning fluids that don’t bust the bank.  Thanks for keeping the sarcasm in check.

Happy Listening,

pgaulke60
Another fluid delivery mechanism I don’t care for is spray bottles.  Invariably I get some on the label or on the machine itself.  
Decades ago I was discussing this topic with an audiophile record store owner near Ohio State. He had a chemist friend who came up with the following formula:
1 gal of distilled water
90 ml of isopropyl alcohol
1 tsp of Alconox (a surfactant frequently used for cleaning labware; Photoflo should also work) 

If you use Alconox, slowly add water to it and stir to get it to dissolve without clumps.

He claimed that the chemists tested the records after cleaning and that there was no residue. As I recall, the alcohol was sufficiently diluted to not worry about any potential damage to the vinyl. 
Decades ago I was discussing this topic with an audiophile record store owner near Ohio State. He had a chemist friend who came up with the following formula:
1 gal of distilled water
90 ml of isopropyl alcohol
1 tsp of Alconox (a surfactant frequently used for cleaning labware; Photoflo should also work) 

If you use Alconox, slowly add water to it and stir to get it to dissolve without clumps.

He claimed that the chemists tested the records after cleaning and that there was no residue. As I recall, the alcohol was sufficiently diluted to not worry about any potential damage to the vinyl. 
DiscWasher D4+ fluid on the tried and true DiscWasher cleaning brush. I’ve been using that for 40 years and have zero complaints. 
cflayton has an excellent suggestion. I have no experience with Alconox but am quite familiar with Photoflo, also a surfactant which reduces the surface tension of a liquid. It comes in liquid form so no need to dissolve a solid substance. It is a product produced by Kodak meant to eliminate drying spots and residue on films. Can be easily found on the net or at most any place that sells photographic supplies.