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In Reply to: RE: Vinyl cleaning system that leaves a lot of surfactants on the vinyl's surface? posted by FenderLover on June 11, 2019 at 15:20:06
That stuff would build up if overused. I've got some records here that used to belong to a friend of mine and a few of them were thoroughly gunked up with D4. I remember him using too much of that stuff back in the day.
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list that only mentions isopropyl alcohol. The Discwasher SC-2 stylus cleaning fluid is also isopropyl alcohol.
I would guess that Gruv Glide and other antistatic(surfactant) fluids would explain the large buildups that fender lover found.
Last treatment is not a surfactant, and, from what I've read, it actually combines with the vinyl compound. I am not sure that Last can be removed.
After watching the Kirmuss video, I don't think that Kirmuss adequately removes his surfactant spray. In addition, each time he places the surfactant covered record into the ultrasonic alcohol bath, he is adding surfactant to the bath water. That is why I use distilled water with a vacuum cleaning machine after the ultrasonic cleaning step. My ultrasonic bath contains a surfactant, a wetting agent, and a small percentage of 99% isopropyl alcohol.
Finally, I would never spend so much time cleaning one record as Mr./Dr(haha) Kirmuss does. Like other people have said, get rid of the white lab coat too.
I was cleaning out an old box of hi-fi stuff a few weeks ago, and found a bottle of D4+, about 80% full. It has a price sticker on it marked $10, but I'll let it go for half that. It can't be more than 35 years old, and still tastes delicious.
(I'm not really offering to sell it, by the way. I just figured that since I lugged this around through too many moves over the last thirty-five years, I might as well at least have a little fun with it.)
"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. 'Cause now I'm an amputee" J. Lennon
Back in the day, we hated isopropyl and would never knowingly let alcohol anywhere near our LPs. But we never read the ingredients label on D4.
If memory serves though, we would occasionally play a record wet. That's probably what gunked up a couple of my friend's records.
As far as the Kirmuss goes, I'll stick with my tried and true DIY vacuum cleaner.
Hornswoop me bungo pony on dogsled on ice
Edits: 06/12/19
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