Cleaning with minimum fuss and cost ?

Here's a URL that will take you to a website page that describes how to build your own RCM:

http://www.audiointelligent.com/aboutrcm.htm

These homemade RCMs will, IMHO, easily best any but the Loricraft and Monks machines, which sell for about $1,000 and up. I plan on building some RCMs in the near future (price about $145), but unforunately don't have any ready yet. Feel free to e-mail if you have any questions.

Best regards,
Paul

KABusa.com sells the least costly, non-DIY vacuum RCM out there AFAIK. It's basically a Nitty Gritty without a built in vacuum, you hook up any home vacuum cleaner to it. Other than DIY it doesn't get any cheaper than that (assuming your home already has a vacuum cleaner of course!)

I haven't used or even seen one, so this is not a recommendation other than to take a look.

Yes Bob, the ressource is in there and thanks for pointing it out, but as you said,.. this ought to keep me busy for a while witch is, am affraid, what I would like to avoid, if I can.
Time is not on my side nowdays and since a new cartrige is on its way my aim was not to learn about all the options there is out there but to invite anyone that feel well served with a low fuss-low cost solution to the problem of cleaning to write something about it.
I would like to know specially about basic but well design machine that would be costing around half or even less of what a VPI 16.5 cost.

An archive search turned up 92 posts on the subject of record cleaning that ought to keep you busy for awhile.

The VPI 16.5 is a very basic but in my opinion adequate RCM. Replacement parts are readily available and they (both unit and company) have a good track record with vinyl enthusiasts.

Its well worth it if you collect and play used LPs. To me its costs is easily justified when you can take a $1.99 LP, run it through a cleaning cycle and get as good...sometimes better...sound as the $19.99 new LP.

You could build your own vacuum RCM. I did and it works great.

I purchased a Nitty Gritty 1.5 recently and I am very happy with it. I am using Audio Intelligent solutions and I find that those OLD albums that I pick up at the local shop and the village stores in NYC sound pretty damn good! I have purchased records for 69 cents that I listen to over the digital source! Cleaning by hand can be tedious so I really recommend a machine with automatic rotation.