It will work as long as you are religious in keeping it clean. If it starts to load up with shit it will deposit some back on to the record. Since the roller moves only in a straight line while the groove is curved this deposition will be intermittent. The result will be pulsed noise starting in the left channel at the start of the album and moving to the right by the end. Very annoying! I'm lazy. I use mine to clean my Hunt brush between uses and it works very well for that.