vinyl cleaning with wood glue....works?

I think it's safer to use Elmer's white glue than the yellow carpenter's glue. White glue is water soluble; carpenter's glue is not. So if you have some residual glue left on the LP, the white kind will come off easier with water.

I tried white glue once on a noisy record and I can't claim a success story like Hxt 1. It spread on and peeled off as expected but I didn't perceive any improvement in noise. Maybe my record was simply noisy, either a bad pressing or permanently damaged whereas Hxt 1's was merely dirty.

I have had good luck with a handheld power steamer and microfiber terry cloths.

04-03-10: Dan_ed
good luck, but it sounds like damage to me

It won't damage it; LPs are made of polyvinylchloride--PVC, same material as plastic plumbing pipes. If you put Elmer's on PVC and let it dry, you can peel it right off with no damage to the PVC.

I've tried the Elmer's (white) glue on LPs. It peels off fine and doesn't damage the LP surface. If it leaves residue it's water soluble. In my experience, however, it didn't clean the record or lower the noise significantly. I got better results with a handheld $20 steam cleaner (like the Walgreen's Perfection Steamer) and microfiber terry cloths for cleaning and then drying (separate cloths).

04-05-10: Dan_ed
Johnnyb53, the point was that what Davidsss described sounded to me like damaged vinyl. Not that the glue was going to hurt the LP.

Now that I understand what you meant, I agree, and my experience matches Davidsss as well. I have a very noisy MoFi pressing of Supertramp's "Crime of the Century." Cleaning it with record cleaning fluid and a handheld steamer lowered the noise a bit, but spreading on some Elmer's glue and peeling it off after it dried didn't improve things any further.

So as you conclude, if there's no improvement, it's damaged vinyl or a bad pressing.