Durable record vacuum cleaner recommendation?
I am looking for a durable record vacuum machine. Any recommendations?
Ideally will also do 10" and 7", and be on the quieter side. Should be able to handle some volume without breaking.
Background: my Project VC-S is busted; vacuum motor got noisy to 95dB at 1 m, a bit much, IMHO. ~$250 motor part with no returns and no guaranteed compatibility is a non-starter. This is already a replacement unit for one with bad gears for the platter. So Pro-ject is out of the running.
In the last couple of months, I used the unit quite a bit (around 1K records vacuumed) as I got an ultrasonic and go through my entire collection.
Thanks for any leads and recommendations, particularly if you have run a few thousand records through your unit with no issues.
Good luck with the surgery @billstevenson. I've had a few of them. The very idea is almost worse than the actual procedure. I flip mats on the Monks if I want to wash/rinse on it, pop it into the ultrasonic and dry with the Monks, just to get that last iota. |
Below is a photo of one of the cleaning stations at the Packard Campus in Culpeper, which is the intake facility for the Library of Congress. The photo was taken in late 2014. (The facility is not open to the public) I have been using a big Monks Omni for the past decade, which is supplemented by the older version of the KL. I had a VPI that started life as a 16 and was converted to a 16.5 It would not die. I gave it to a friend at the beginning of 2017, along with an assortment of brushes, applicators and fluids.
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