Recently I have upped my intake of vinyl. I have begun to buy alot of older classic trance/house records that are not available digital format. I also have begun to buy alot of older music in general on vinyl. (beatles, stones, motown)
I’ve got a Loricraft PRC4 and use L’art du Son liquid.
Works very well - I bought up a friends collection that had been poorly stored for many years and it does a great job of getting rid of all the old dust and grime. Not cheap, but whwn you have as much vinyl as I do it a good investment.
I have a Spin Clean and it works well in general. The hardest part is finding time to do it and finding space to let the records dry.
For about $50-60 total investment I also bought a shop vac and one of those vacuum attachments made specifically for cleaning records (like this Audio/Video Cleaning Kits for sale | eBay though mine is different). It does a great job of deep cleaning and given all the time in the world I would clean every record first with the Spin Clean and then with the vacuum. I think it winds up being comparable to a lot of those fancy cleaners which functionally use the same technology.
If you really want to invest some money look into ultrasonic cleaning, which is widely claimed to be the absolute best way to go but will easily cost you upwards of $1000 for a decent setup. I’ve read you can jury rig an ultrasonic device using parts bought from Poland on ebay for about $500 but it requires a lot more DIY. Personally I’m ok with my spin clean and vacuum; I really don’t own any vinyl worth enough money to justify spending more than I already have. And again the biggest issue is time – 99% of the time when I have a dirty record it gets the Groovy Record Cleaner spray treatment and a microfiber cloth wipedown and then it hits the decks.
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[QUOTE=Cytokine;757885]PVA glue
[/quote]Have you tried it? I have not. But it looks interesting.[/QUOTE]
I think you have to make sure you get the one with no addittives. But no, it’s supposed to be a super clean way to do records. The wood and the record are close molecular cousins so it allows the wood glue to get in all the cracks and crevases but never making a full bond.
