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| Record Cleaner Advice? @pindac,In the UK/EU you cannot purchase Liquinox and Tergitol. Aside from ILFOTOL, for a Tergitol 15-S-9 near equivalent you can purchase Dehypon LS54 Dehypon – Conservation Resources (UK) Ltd (conservation-resources.co.uk) which is not av... | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @keegiam,Yes, you can use the Liquinox with the vacuum-RCM. Use about 0.5% solution and then rinse with DIW and then proceed to final clean with the 15-S-9. The Liquinox will foam more than 15-S-9, but most of foam will collect in the brush. I ... | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @pryso,This subject has been discussed many ways - there is a long thread over at the VPI Forum and starting around page 66 I started contributing http://www.vpiforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=2289&start=650.Otherwise, you can swipe the bru... | |
| Best type of metal for turntable platform? @deanshias,As others have said , Townsend knows what he talks about. But, let me if I can expound upon what he said. If you view Figure 7 of this Fundamentals of Vibration (newport.com) , when your designing a vibration isolator, the resonant freq... | |
| Best type of metal for turntable platform? @deanshias,If your problem is a flexible floor, then the term footfall relates to the very low frequency (<4Hz) vibration that occurs as you walk across the floor. In this case, mass & resonant damping with metal or anything else is not go... | |
| Best type of metal for turntable platform? If you view this document - Documentation of damping capacity of metallic, ceramic and metal-matrix composite materials (utexas.edu), it gives an excellent summary of the damping characteristics for metals. Table III is the one of most interest... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @garyalex,10 drops = about 0.5 mL; 1-gal = 3785 mL, so 0.5/3785 = 0.0132%. I wrote the following as the 1st post of this 2nd page of this thread - "Tergitol 15-S-9 is a preferred non-ionic surfactant for record ultrasonic machines because you o... | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @pryso,Let me offer a cheap solution first. Buy the two cleaning agents: the Alconox Liquinox ($22 from Amazon) as a pre-cleaner and the Tergitol 15-S-9 ($22 + shipping from Talas) as a final cleaner, and maybe a new brush. Then try the pre-clean/... | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @keegiam,People using the procedure use just one vacuum-RCM. They are not using multiple vacuum-RCM. Note that this device Amazon.com : RONXS Lighter, Upgraded Candle Lighter Camping Lighter Grill Lighter USB Lighter Plasma Arc with LED Batter... | |
| Record Cleaner Advice? @keegiam,The disadvantage with the NG 1.5 is that you cannot work the surface of the record with cleaner/brush and this is noted in this review comparing it to a VPI Record cleaning machines - Clearaudio Smart Matrix, Nitty Gritty 1.5 and VPI HW... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning The Kirmuss statements on ultrasonic frequency are pure nonsense. The science of ultrasonic cleaning is well understood and well documented such as detailed in this book - Particle Adhesion and Removal | Wiley Online Books. Fundamentally the l... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @skyscraper,How about $21.75 for a pint - Tergitol 15-S-3 and 15-S-9 Surfactant | TALAS (talasonline.com). What Amazon and the labs are selling is spectrographic grade with a nice brown bottle and label and a certificate of analysis (CoA). Oth... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @orthomead,Note of caution: 5% IPA has a flash point of 50C (122F); so when heated to 45C (113F) and above you start getting close; and yes I know you have never had a problem. Not to belabor the risk, but as equipment ages from use, the electri... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @ jehowlind,There is an on-going thread here Degritter Users | Steve Hoffman Music Forums that you may find of interest. When reading be aware that those in UK cannot buy Triton X100; it is an environmental hazard (kills fish) and eventually w... | |
| New Hobby Ultrasonic Record Cleaning @bjw54,Your process of pre-clean first with a spin-clean (or vacuum RCM or manual in sink) and then final clean with ultrasonic is a time-tested record cleaning process when working with water-based cleaners. Large automated industry does essenti... |