Programmergeek,
I have used a VPI HW-17 for over 20 years and about 10 years ago I switched completely to manual brushes and manual application of cleaning fluid and rinse. I'm getting much better results. Today, I keep distilled water in the fluid reservoir simply to rinse used records with a lot of surface debris before moving on to my manual cleaning regimen.
I have found that an ultra-pure water rinse makes a very significant improvement in results, regardless of the cleaning fluids of choice and whether those fluids are "one step" or multi-step.
For what it may be worth, I've found the multi-step cleaning solutions to consistently out-perform any of the single step solutions, but a single-step cleaning solution is consistently improved with an ultra-pure water rinse.
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I have used a VPI HW-17 for over 20 years and about 10 years ago I switched completely to manual brushes and manual application of cleaning fluid and rinse. I'm getting much better results. Today, I keep distilled water in the fluid reservoir simply to rinse used records with a lot of surface debris before moving on to my manual cleaning regimen.
I have found that an ultra-pure water rinse makes a very significant improvement in results, regardless of the cleaning fluids of choice and whether those fluids are "one step" or multi-step.
For what it may be worth, I've found the multi-step cleaning solutions to consistently out-perform any of the single step solutions, but a single-step cleaning solution is consistently improved with an ultra-pure water rinse.
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