^ ditto. I am using the Teflon rod today (trying out). No light yet.
Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records
FYI, I have previously posted a bit of information on cleaning, and I have now complied that and much more into a paper titled “Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records”. Bill Hart of The Vinyl Press https://thevinylpress.com/ who has a keen interest in cleaning vinyl records is hosting the paper. He has written an article on the paper that captures it better than I could, and a link to the article that has the free-download load option for the paper (85 pages) is here: https://thevinylpress.com/precision-aqueous-cleaning-of-vinyl-records/ . If you have not been to his site, check-it out, there is a lot of good info, and its well written. While at his site, check out the about-tab and then scroll down and click on System-Notes-Austin-2017. He has a pretty impressive system and near the end shows quite a ‘cleaning station’; using both a Keith Monks vacuum-RCM and KL Audio UCM.
Best Regards and Stay Well,
Neil
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Today, I had visitors to experience recent changes made to the Audio System. I was extremely confident the LP receiving a Pre Use Brush Clean was being done to the standard when the Brush was new. The Grimace seen on a face when I showed the Stylus in the Brush and pulling the brush to myself was worth its weight in gold. I did have to explain by showing the unusual softness for the brushes bristles. More importantly there was very very little noise born from fibre contamination during a LP's replay. |
The UV light verifies that the PTFE (Teflon) rod works; that it picks up particles & lint from the brush (or record is used as specified in the book). The UV light also verifies that the PTFE (Teflon) rod is clean with most particles removed prior to use. I use the Kinetronics Tiger Cloth Amazon.com: Kinetronics Anti-Static Microfiber Cloth, 10x18-Inch Tiger Cloth : Health & Household to wipe down the rod. The cloth which has copper threads interwoven is anti-static and the particles it removes from the rod are easily removed by just shaking the cloth; the particles do not want to stick to the neutral charge cloth. Every so often I will spray the rod with DIW and then wipe it down with the Tiger cloth to remove all particles from the rod. After all is said and done, it's all about maintenance of cleanliness. We just jumped through many hoops to wet clean the record; it does take a little bit of forethought and effort to keep it reasonably clean. Take care, Neil |
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