"Cleaning" Vinyl Makes It Worse Not Better!

You are loosening, but not removing junk that the stylus is digging out. You need to get the gunk out before playing. Advanced stylus profiles get deeper into the grooves than the spherical and elliptical they were played with previously.

For ’normally dirty’ lps’ I’m thinking of trying a compact ultra-sonic clean/dry unit, waiting for some guidance from members here in another discussion

ultrasonic machine discussion here

Meanwhile, I aggressively scrub old dirty lps, mine from high school and college days, many given to me by friends when they got rid of their TT’s when CD’s took over, some purchased knowing they need a good bath, as long as no scratches. They go from unlistenable to an enjoyable listen, surprised me. 

I add alcohol 91, and a few drops of jet dry rinse agent to the purchased mix in a small spray bottle, thus ’my mix’.

plastic lid from chinese soup container to protect the paper label.

vigorous, repeat vigorous scrub with baby scalp brush and my mix

manual spin machine is for rinse with distilled water, a pre-dry wipe with a cloth, into the 10 lp rack that comes with the spinner.

batches of 10 while listening, whistle while u work.

my new 4" magnifier mirror, 30x, with built in LED, keep on the deck below your cartridge. lift it up from the side, angle it this way and that to see stylus tip, cantilever, suspension

scrub a dub dub

3 baby scalp scrub brushes

record cleaning unit with drying rack for 10 lps

Oh yeah, I forgot, I'm gonna add the little bit of Jet Dry Rinse to the spinner tank with the Distilled Water next time. I was putting it in with the cleaning fluid.

richardbrand

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CLLZYBVK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

temu.com

I have successfully ordered several items at low prices from temu,

watch the minimum quantity and shipping cost

do a search '30x mirror'

@unclewilbur 

everyone

I made a Virtual System called MISC on this site, just to upload pics from my computer that I want to show here. Once there, do just as noted by dogberry above;

IMAGE: any web image, right click, copy image address. in your post window, click the 6th icon from the left, paste the image address in the URL box

IMAGE SIZE: I was getting distorted pics inserted, a member here had me simply enter the width box, enter 555, click OK (it automatically retains the aspect ratio of the original).

Hit return after you insert, that moves the insertion blinker below the photo in case you want to add more text, or other links, images.

LINK: any web address, you copy it, then in your post go to the 4th icon from the right, (right of the smiley) (it's a symbol of a chain LINK). click, paste the full address in the URL box, then you can name it anything you want in the top box 'display text'.