Stylus cleaner


Does anyone have a home made recipie for a safe but effective stylus cleaner?
mwentsel

Showing 2 responses by rodman99999

Unless a cantilever were made of a layered material, with gaps running up it's length, or it were porous(highly unlikely); no liquid could venture up it's length, via capillary action/wicking. If the cantilever were hollow, as some are, one would have to dip the end in a pool of liquid, for it to flow up into a cart's body/compliance. That's just the Physics of it. I suppose their are some, ham-fisted enough, to slather enough cleaner on stylus/cantilever, to wet it's compliance too, but- I'd hope for better. Some info: (http://chemwiki.ucdavis.edu/Physical_Chemistry/Physical_Properties_of_Matter/Bulk_Properties/Cohesive_And_Adhesive_Forces/Capillary_Action)
Hi Larry- I don't doubt that(mysterious goo) a bit, and have seen it myself! There have been a number of, "groove lubrication" products, over the years, that could be over-applied, dredged out of the groove by the stylus and flipped up onto the cantilever/cart, over a period of time. Not to mention; there are people out there that actually play their records wet. Some radio DJs used to use glycerin, to quiet noisy records. Again, another possibility; those ham-fisted few and who-knows-what-product?