Home brew cleaning solution

Guys

This couldn't be simpler - this is what I use with my Moth cleaner:

1 part of Iso Propyl Alcohol
Your chemist/pharmacy can order this for you in 500ml containers

4 parts of the purest water you can find
Once again your chemist can help - mine comes in 2.5L containers.

Then - the mixing ritual:

1. Pour out 500ml of the water using your Mrs' best pyrex measuring jug and discard (the water, not the jug...)

2. Pour the IPA into the water container.

...then add a couple of drops of photograph wetting agent (this ensures the liquid spreads over the surface properly and doesn't "bead up")

Finally, give the water container a good shake to make sure everything has mixed nicely.

R.

Agree with Aroc. Brian Weitzel has explained this several times. If he'd wanted RRL to flow more evenly he could have made it do so.

When you apply the cleaning solution with a brush, do you start from the outer edge of the record or does it matter? It works best for me if I start from the outer edge of the record.

The Disc Doctor, Last and carbon fiber brushes are all about the full width of the grooves, so I start everywhere at once.

OK, sorry guy's I guess I missed this, why exactly is it good that RRL fluid beads up when intuitively everything would suggest that reduced surface tension is the goal. (that is, after all, the point of using things like photoflo) Is this "Voodoo Vinylomics" or is there a sound explanation?