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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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rajivhifi
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Thanks for the link. Seems like a generic design adapted to vinyl cleaning use case per the below review:

https://theaudiophileman.com/record-cleaner-pro-ultrasonic-review/

I have a Pro-ject vacuum cleaning RCM. I wonder how much better this might be of the Pro-ject? 
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Thanks for explaining @antinn . I think I'll just go with Tergitol if its better in the long run. 
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Bought one yesterday and see its out of stock today. 

BTW I see suggestions to use the Tergitol surfactant 15-S-9 along with it for cleaning. How much would you add per gallon of distilled water/use? 
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Wow, they charge as much for shipping as the product! Any other alternatives to this product to be used with the US cleaner? 
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I have received mine and no missing parts. I had to figure out how to put it together since the manual is sparse. It also came bundled with a good plastic records holder for drying purposes. I’m not going to clean jewelry in it so the basket is non-functional item for me.
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