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Quiet"er" record cleaner?

I have been looking to upgrade from my spin cleaner for a fair while now and I was wondering if there are any vacuum cleaners out there that wont make my girlfriend move out. They just all seem like they are going to be cazy loud from the videos I've seen and that just seems wrong for devices that go up from $500.
ohnofiasco

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czarivey
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Rodman,
What if cleaning is necessary for 20...30 records in a row?
czarivey
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there are machines that use your own vacuum cleaner. i have electrolux oxigene that is pretty darn quiet.
czarivey
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You can build your own ultrasonic cleaner and stay within $550...600 easy.
I found ultrasonic bath with non-working heater for $150 with 120W transducers(4x40w), built my own frame to hold puleys and rotating pole, utlized unused electric corded drill by drilling an extra hole on the trigger to get slow rotations and mounted it to the frame with pooleys.
I was able to get the rotation speed of 2rpm. I also attached an acquarium filter purchased used on CL in great condition.
The total cost went way bellow VPI HW16.5.
Some of the extreamly valuable records I place on VPI after ultrasonic cycle is complete. I use timer on ultrasonic bath that signals the end of process.
My custom made unit is able to clean upto 8 records.
czarivey
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Mr Rodman WRONG.
It's a LOT more and even 10 seconds of VPI noise is already more than nuf.
I have older 22 years old VPI 16 machine and only use it when I dry out pricey records now.
Before I built ultrasonic machine, I really had to wear ear plugs. For contaminated records I had to rinse more thoroughly and vacuum more thoroughly far more than 2revs per side of record. For large quantity of contaminated records even with ear plugs you'll get headache by the end of day.
I retail records,memorabilia,CDs and make my living on that.
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