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Vinyl records & Discwasher cleaner

My vinyl record collection was stored for 40 years with multiple moves through out the years. Last stop was work. One day I entered my office and unexpectedly found boxes of 700 albums. Someone needed space and without asking piled them in office. Moved them to my home. Got me thinking. Divorced, kids out, home with rooms I can play loud without disturbing neighbors. Why not go for it. I restarted my journey back into the HIFI world.  Turned out to be an expensive move.

Now a days, as with most, streaming is the preferred mode of transportation in the journey if HIFI. From time to time, I pull a record out to play. Most of the time I’m stunned when I hear most of them have little pops or other noises, if at all. Then I remember that I was pretty religious about cleaning them before play with Discwasher cleaner.

Does anyone else remember using Discwasher with their records back in the 70’s? sure there’s a few of you young chaps that used it.

Not sure when they stopped selling them. Most likely early 80’s when CDs done them in.

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ghdprentice
7,987 posts
 

If you’re missing the old discwasher, then go and get Last All Purpose Record Cleaner a bottle comes with brushes that work many times better than the old discwasher.

robert53
513 posts
 

I purchased the kit that facten showed and it works really well. I also purchased a gallon of Phoenix record cleaner which I use to refill the little spray bottle that came with it. I used it to clean a box sat of jazz records from the sixties than someone gave me that were stored in a basement. The records looked perfect, but when I played one it sounded as if it was covered in tiny scratches. I cleaned the records using the brush and the Pheonix fluid, replayed them, and perfect. All the noise was gone. I don't know if it was mold, but they sound really good now. I also have a Record Doctor for normal cleaning and use the Record Doctor fluid for that.

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manfred1
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I still have my Diskwasher brush and been using it for years. The original Diskwasher solution is long gone, so I spray a substitute one called Record Happy on it and the result is very few pops and clicks. Also use an old carbon fiber brush prior to the Diskwasher routine.

 

bloodyhell
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I worked for Discwasher back then and the company was pretty well immersed in the audiophile culture. I still have some friends from those days and I still have some equipment left over since we were the US importer of Stax and Denon. Some of the stuff has aged out of service but my Stax preamp is still going strong. 
 

vinylvin
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https://www.groovewasher.com/collections/cleaning-kits/products/groovewasher-walnut-record-cleaning-kit

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