I love your set up with the Ultrasonic machine I have one as well, As I said below (some ones comment) I also have a Project VC-E vacuum record cleaning machine, both work great!! I also Love your filtering system I might have to get one of those...
Hi! Always curious to see others cleaning method. That was one dirty record. Ultrasonic cleaning really changed the vinyl cleaning game. Nice set-up. Enjoyed the video. Cheers. /Paul
Thanks, had to search junk stores specially to find that one. Yes the ultrasonic and the vacuum attachment really changed how clean the records get. And the machine does most of the work while you can do other things.
Yes I have one too they work well I also have a Project VC-E vacuum record cleaning machine, I do find the ultrasonic machine to be a little too noisy and to hear that Buzzing for 20 min drives me nuts!!!, The VC-E machine is a bit more quieter. I only use the ultrasonic machine on really heavily dirty records & it works great. I love his set up as well..
@@paulc5358 Hi Paul. One thing I noticed, the higher the frequency used in the ultrasonic record cleaner, the lower the noise level. Unfortunately it also cross correlates with the costs of the ultrasonic transducers. /Paul2
Nice job Gnome...........sometimes you will still have a white lump of something on the grooves. I use a wooden toothpick to pop it off, otherwise you will still get a pop when playing. Watch out for heavy mold that has eaten the vinyl....it will make a little divet in the groove.
@@TrippinGnomeHi Gnome..... I use a Stasis Record Cleaning Brush for really dirty records. Its made especially for wet cleaning vinyl. I use full strength Windex and scrub it really good before going thru the bath. Works well for me and brush holds up good. Been using it for a hundred records or so, bad records, and bristles still like new. I like your set-up .......lots of work but worth it.
I made that video 3 years ago, prices have risen a lot since then. I did a quick check and the 6L ultrasonic tanks are running 200$cdn-400$cdn on amazon.ca and maybe another 100$cdn for the low speed motor, power supply and other parts. (also at least another 100$ if you want to add a water filter and water pump) I see that a company called VEVOR is selling a pre-made ultrasonic unit on amazon for 340$cdn, no idea of the quality. Vevor: www.amazon.ca/VEVOR-Record-Professional-Ultrasonic-Cleaner/dp/B09KGNDKW1/ The yellow spin-clean is running 110$cdn on amazon now, and the Squeaky-clean vinyl RCM vacuum has jumped up to 172$cdn on their site. Spin clean www.amazon.ca/Spin-Clean-Record-Washer-MKII-Complete/dp/B002UKSZUU Squeaky Clean RCM squeakycleanvinyl.com/products/squeakycleanvinyl-mk-iii
First step I'd go to discogs.com and lookup the records values to determine if it is worth going through all the trouble and expense of setting the equipment and time (about 30 minutes a cleaning cycle) needed to clean them. Record jackets that have been wet and gone moldy are nor easily recovered, usually discarded and replaced with a generic jacket.
Thanks, the record jackets have been discarded but I was hoping to recover the records. Thanks for the tip about discorgs. Will do the math and see if it’s worth replacing instead first.
Depends on condition. Usually a wipe-down inside and out with lysol wipes, glued on labels & stickers removed with goo-gone. and sometimes use a magic-eraser to remove marks. Damp smell of old cardboard can sometimes be masked with fabreeze or leaving it in the sun outside for a while. But not very much you can do to cardboard if it is really damaged. Edge and seam splits can be fixed with gluing in new cardboard. If the record is good but jacket in really bad shape sometimes best to just replace it with a generic blank jacket.
It is rewashing the record for 15-20 minutes in a warm water bath to remove dirt from between the grooves. some pre-existing water stains do disappear but not all, some of them seem to become permanent with time unfortunately.
Good vid Gnome. You mentioned the cleaning bath at 30 - 35 degrees at 20 min. - sounds right. But at what frequency (hz) did you use for the cavitation to work at? You can always use the hockey pucks as record stabilizer / clamp? True Canadian thinking???
The unit I have is 6 liters and its transducers run at 40Khz/180watts. Yes, I was using a heavy practice puck 10oz instead of the normal 6oz for a record weight for a while :)
You did more harm than good here. Everything you touch is now contaminated with the foreign germs from that record. By placing it on your table leaves guck. Your hands are transferring it to every thing you touch. The Lysol wipes has to be wet for a period of 60 seconds or so in order to clean most of the germs and bacteria off. Doing that to a cardboard cover will end up destroying it. The record will eventually come clean but you will have to rinse and repeat. The best thing to do is to throw away the covers immediately outside before you enter your home and do the record cleaning outside or your garage. Use a new cardboard jacket for your record when you’ve finished cleaning it.
Your method is not cheap. I use a $20 label saver device and a $10 pressurized water sprayer filled with distilled water and hit the record with that. Then use my cleaning agent mix plus a paint pad with the label saver device. Then rinse with the distilled water sprayer. Then I drop the lp onto a dowel spindled lazy susan covered with a microfiber towel. Then I hit it with a modified mini wet vac vacuum vinyl cleaner attachment. Then I set the lp on a vinyl drying rack. Total cost for 1000's of cleanings: @$50 U.S.
I discuss my diy ultrasonic record cleaner here: ruclips.net/video/BZhQ4W-5W4U/видео.html
cool stuff, thanks for sharing, my crate of fav records was ruined from a roof leak and now I am trying to recover them. Cheers from Japan.
Always horrible to hear when something like that happens, hope you have luck in cleaning and recovering them. Thanks for watching!
Wow! What an awesome set-up! Great video. Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I love your set up with the Ultrasonic machine I have one as well, As I said below (some ones comment) I also have a Project VC-E vacuum record cleaning machine, both work great!! I also Love your filtering system I might have to get one of those...
Dave Lee Travis!!!
Fantastic video Sir
Thanks!
Hi! Always curious to see others cleaning method. That was one dirty record. Ultrasonic cleaning really changed the vinyl cleaning game. Nice set-up. Enjoyed the video. Cheers. /Paul
Thanks, had to search junk stores specially to find that one. Yes the ultrasonic and the vacuum attachment really changed how clean the records get. And the machine does most of the work while you can do other things.
Yes I have one too they work well I also have a Project VC-E vacuum record cleaning machine, I do find the ultrasonic machine to be a little too noisy and to hear that Buzzing for 20 min drives me nuts!!!, The VC-E machine is a bit more quieter. I only use the ultrasonic machine on really heavily dirty records & it works great. I love his set up as well..
@@paulc5358 Hi Paul. One thing I noticed, the higher the frequency used in the ultrasonic record cleaner, the lower the noise level. Unfortunately it also cross correlates with the costs of the ultrasonic transducers. /Paul2
Nice job Gnome...........sometimes you will still have a white lump of something on the grooves. I use a wooden toothpick to pop it off, otherwise you will still get a pop when playing. Watch out for heavy mold that has eaten the vinyl....it will make a little divet in the groove.
Interesting! I have not come across one yet but that is a good method to know that it can sometimes be popped off.
@@TrippinGnomeHi Gnome..... I use a Stasis Record Cleaning Brush for really dirty records. Its made especially for wet cleaning vinyl. I use full strength Windex and scrub it really good before going thru the bath. Works well for me and brush holds up good. Been using it for a hundred records or so, bad records, and bristles still like new. I like your set-up .......lots of work but worth it.
Reprise on blue and silver label? Color me color-shocked!
Not the label you usually see for reprise 😀 The album was from 1966.
Have a crate of records that got moldy from a storage unit flood. If I wanted to recreate your set up, what would it run?
I made that video 3 years ago, prices have risen a lot since then.
I did a quick check and the 6L ultrasonic tanks are running 200$cdn-400$cdn on amazon.ca and maybe another 100$cdn for the low speed motor, power supply and other parts. (also at least another 100$ if you want to add a water filter and water pump)
I see that a company called VEVOR is selling a pre-made ultrasonic unit on amazon for 340$cdn, no idea of the quality.
Vevor: www.amazon.ca/VEVOR-Record-Professional-Ultrasonic-Cleaner/dp/B09KGNDKW1/
The yellow spin-clean is running 110$cdn on amazon now, and the Squeaky-clean vinyl RCM vacuum has jumped up to 172$cdn on their site.
Spin clean www.amazon.ca/Spin-Clean-Record-Washer-MKII-Complete/dp/B002UKSZUU
Squeaky Clean RCM squeakycleanvinyl.com/products/squeakycleanvinyl-mk-iii
First step I'd go to discogs.com and lookup the records values to determine if it is worth going through all the trouble and expense of setting the equipment and time (about 30 minutes a cleaning cycle) needed to clean them.
Record jackets that have been wet and gone moldy are nor easily recovered, usually discarded and replaced with a generic jacket.
Thanks, the record jackets have been discarded but I was hoping to recover the records. Thanks for the tip about discorgs. Will do the math and see if it’s worth replacing instead first.
So you bought the Nancy Sinatra Record for the articles 😉
What about the jackets?
Depends on condition. Usually a wipe-down inside and out with lysol wipes, glued on labels & stickers removed with goo-gone. and sometimes use a magic-eraser to remove marks. Damp smell of old cardboard can sometimes be masked with fabreeze or leaving it in the sun outside for a while. But not very much you can do to cardboard if it is really damaged. Edge and seam splits can be fixed with gluing in new cardboard. If the record is good but jacket in really bad shape sometimes best to just replace it with a generic blank jacket.
Does this method work with water/moisture marks on vinyl??
It is rewashing the record for 15-20 minutes in a warm water bath to remove dirt from between the grooves. some pre-existing water stains do disappear but not all, some of them seem to become permanent with time unfortunately.
Good vid Gnome. You mentioned the cleaning bath at 30 - 35 degrees at 20 min. - sounds right. But at what frequency (hz) did you use for the cavitation to work at? You can always use the hockey pucks as record stabilizer / clamp?
True Canadian thinking???
The unit I have is 6 liters and its transducers run at 40Khz/180watts. Yes, I was using a heavy practice puck 10oz instead of the normal 6oz for a record weight for a while :)
what is the vacuum accessory you used?
It is called the squeaky clean vinyl vacuum a 3d printed accessory from squeakycleanvinyl.com/products/squeakycleanvinyl-mk-iii
You did more harm than good here.
Everything you touch is now contaminated with the foreign germs from that record. By placing it on your table leaves guck. Your hands are transferring it to every thing you touch. The Lysol wipes has to be wet for a period of 60 seconds or so in order to clean most of the germs and bacteria off. Doing that to a cardboard cover will end up destroying it.
The record will eventually come clean but you will have to rinse and repeat.
The best thing to do is to throw away the covers immediately outside before you enter your home and do the record cleaning outside or your garage. Use a new cardboard jacket for your record when you’ve finished cleaning it.
Given the cover of that album, I don't think that's white mold 😉 just saying
ha, ya you never know what might be on something from the thrift shops 😂
screw...Sinatra? what kinda rubdown u gave her again?
Your method is not cheap. I use a $20 label saver device and a $10 pressurized water sprayer filled with distilled water and hit the record with that. Then use my cleaning agent mix plus a paint pad with the label saver device. Then rinse with the distilled water sprayer. Then I drop the lp onto a dowel spindled lazy susan covered with a microfiber towel. Then I hit it with a modified mini wet vac vacuum vinyl cleaner attachment. Then I set the lp on a vinyl drying rack. Total cost for 1000's of cleanings: @$50 U.S.
If your method it works for you, that is great!
That looked like the remains of a cockroach. This album has had a pretty bad history from previous owners.
I've seen worse. And own worse too.