budget cleaning ideas for garage sale records?

R U guys serious cleaning records with alcohol or soap???
50% of alcohol will make the grooves flat(forgive me for exhageration but in some way it's true). I do recognise vinyls cleaned with alcohol that have unremovable and visible traces and I bet it means something in terms of sonics.
Why break your head and experiment when you can easy order a professional VPI record cleaning solution $16 a bottle of which you mix with 1/2 galons of distilled water??

Patrick, want to thank you again here for communicating with me to set up the tonearm!

You're hell of an effort guy! I confess that I wouldn't ever launder vinyls so heavy -- slight damages maybe or I won't place them under my Lyra Helikon. I believe that paying more money for the same good condition record is much cheaper but say thanks to addiction!

Sean,
Won't the under-boiling temperature hot water create bow-shapes on record?

...so there is a way to construct kind-of home-vac record adapter i assume...