Steam cleaning records 2

I just bought a $40 1000W Shark hand-held from Target on-line. It works great, does not run out of steam, and appears to be well-built.

FWIW, the Shark hand-held with similar 8 oz. reservior provides uninterrupted steam for at least one minute-- after which I stopped trying. About 8-10 seconds does it with a RCM. I can see how without an RCM it would take longer.

If it's not working after 5-10 minutes of warm-up, then assuming you used the supplied beaker to measure the correct 8oz of water, did not overfill the resevoir(if overfilled it will blow out a column of water), and screwed down the top tightly, then it must be defective.

To distinguish between Shark models, note that the 1000W Shark that provides continuous steam without pumping the trigger is called Supersteamer Model SC710S.

These steamers will throw water if the reservoir is overfilled. Be careful with Shark to fill below the line on the supplied measuring beaker.

Perhaps I should revisit freshman experiments spilling bong water on LPs. Some of those records sounded better after "treatment."

Crem1, Agreed except for your ideas on why the mono Beatles albums are collectible. In '67 all hippie aspirations were for stereo. The mono versions were likely passed over rather than ruined by bong water. Just can't imagine the beard in tie-dye saying "Hey, man, this MONO version of Lucy in the Skies will blow your mind..." What's more, this same fellow would probably have found an imaginative use for the Perfection Steamer quite different from steaming records.

+1 SRWooten and gawd IIRC at some point HELLO! was replaced by an emoticon.

This is just fine:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Shark-Super-Steamer/11061818

IMO steam cleaning has been over-hyped, but is still a useful tool to have on hand.