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New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning

Purchased a cheap $199.00 stainless steel digital ultrasonic cleaner with a very nice record cleaning attachment off Amazon and I am having a blast.

This thing is heated, has a timer and an electric motor to rotate the records in the US tank. It is a 6L unit and it is made in China. Seems well built and it cleans records like a much more expensive machine.

I have cleaned a half dozen albums that are 40 plus years old and have only been cleaned with vacuuming machines and this thing is great. The albums I have cleaned sound darn near new and my wife thought I bought another new cartridge or phono pre-amp.

Can not recommend this type of cleaning system enough.

Rediscover those old albums.. if this thing lasts a couple of years I will be a happy dude. 
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I am using the same tank, but with a Vinyl Spinner attachment for rotation.  I use "Ruston's" formula, which is a combo of tergiclean hepastat IS alchohol and distilled water.

I use a spin clean as a pre cleaning step to remove loose surface debris, then into the US tank for 15min at .33 rpm...or 5 revolutions.  Then rinse in distilled water, and nitty gritty vac dry.

My results are OUTSTANDING.  I now have numerous 55-65yr old LPs that have a noise floor lower than that of my system.  I hear better transient response, and staggeringly improved resolution of small scale details- air space around musicians etc.

I highly recommend US cleaning to any serious record collector.
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