Biokleen Bac Out cleaner

I have tried it and do not recommend it.

Bac-out contains lime extracts and "live enzyme producing cultures" of bacteria, and stabilizers. They are not specific about the exact ingredients.

It may loosen dirt, oil or what ever but will be hard to rinse off the cleaner itself, especially since we don't know what it is made of.

It does leave your records limey fresh though.

Ken

Enzyme cleaners do not dissolve dirt, grease, and stains unless the dirt, grease, and stains are of biological origin. If they're not you're wasting your time and money.

I use MoldZyme for problems where I suspect noise due to mildew in the grooves. First off - the only ingredients in MoldZyme are: Water, Fermented Vegetable Matter (the enzymes), and Natural Surfactants. I have let it soak on lp's for hours and it has not caused damage.

The problem with mildew is that it may adhere to the vinyl more tenaciously than dust or grease. So a typical alcohol/surfactant combo cleaner often doesn't work on it - that's when I suspect there is a mold issue.

If after vigorous cleaning with Disk Doctor cleaner I still have surface noise on a mint looking lp, I pull out the MoldZyme. Spray it on very liberally and let it soak for 10 minutes or more, then I use the DD pads as normal, rinse, then re-clean with the usual DD fluid. This often completely eliminates the problems. I sometimes wonder why not just use the MoldZyme to start with - it's extremely effective and much cheaper than "audiophile fluid".

Here's a link to one internet seller - it's also available in stores:
http://www.greenhome.com/products/bath/basin_and_tile_cleaners/110295/

Thank you for your input.
This evening I tried out the Biokleen prodcts. I noticed that the General Purpose cleaner leave some white residue on the LP, but the Bac Out cleaner did not. I will do further testing with my home brewed recipe (which contains a pint of alcohol, 30 drops of Kodak ortoflo surfacant, two table spoon of Lysol, and a gallon of distilled water (Internet recipe)), Audio Intelligent fluids, and the Biokleen Bac Out Cleaner. Plus I steam clean the LP before applying the fluids.

Opalchip should really learn some basic biochemistry before making his claims about a product called MoldZyme. If the ingredients are as he reports, and if the "fermented vegetable matter" in fact contains active enzymes after the fermentation process is complete, there will be little if any active enzyme present after the surfactant is added. Surfactants in significant concentration deactivate enzymes, and deactivated enzymes are useless. They do nothing to anything. Likewise, if Almandog is adding the "Biokleen Bac Out Cleaner" to his otherwise sensible witches' brew, all he is doing is destroying any enzymatic activity which might have originally been present in the product. It's the other ingredients that are doing the cleaning.

The only activity associated with some of these enzyme-based cleaners is in the bank accounts of the people who sell them to gullible audiophiles.