The Tiger cloth is no longer available. Is there an option or another vendor?
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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The Kinetronics 10x18-Inch Tiger Cloth is available from many sites besides Amazon. Just search "Kinetronics 10x18-Inch Tiger Cloth"; you may have to pay for shipping such as Kinetronics Soft Microfiber Anti-Static Cloth - 10 x 18" KSASC or eBay has Kinetronics Anti-Static Microfiber Cloth, 10x18-Inch Tiger Cloth | eBay with free shipping but a few dollars more than Amazon. The cloth often sells out at Amazon (it's popular with many different users) only to show back up when negotiated pricing and stocks are available again. Take care, Neil |
The UV flashlight, the TFE rod and the Tiger Cloth all finally assembled late yesterday. I charged the battery overnight and this morning went to work. Three brushes first: a Sage, a VPI and a RxCord Doctor all full of little white specs visible only under UV light. Removal using the TFE rod was fairly easy as was clean up as I went along using the Tiger Rag. Next and the bigger surprise were my two turntables. My VPI HW40, with mostly smooth surfaces and few nooks and crannies was relatively clean with only a scant few little white particles here and there when examined under the UV light. My Technics SL1200GAE, however, with many irregular surfaces, crevices and so forth lighted up like a Christmas tree. I spent a lot of time and it is still not perfect. So I have learned a very important lesson. Getting a record clean is not the end of the battle. I have no idea how many clean records I promptly recontaminated by putting them on a contaminated turntable. Sheesh. Thank you again for your continued insight. |
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