Woolite is a cold water wash detergent that has the same

Posted by hiatt@alaska.net (A) on April 22, 2007 at 12:18:49

In Reply to: Advice on cleaning 78s? posted by M3 lover on April 22, 2007 at 11:28:36:

surfactant(sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate) as in a product called Labtone that was recommended for 78s in the following article:

http://home.earthlink.net/~gnordenstam/RecordCollection/Cleaning.htm

A very similar surfactant is also contained in the Disc Doctor's Miracle Record Cleaner and is called triethanolammonium dodecylbenzenesulfonate.

Woolite was also recommended in the following series of links on Audiogon.com:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1124989009&read&3&4&

Be sure to read the responses as well, especially the following one on Woolite:

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?eanlg&1124989009&openflup&11&4#11

I have not tried Oxy Deep on 78s or LPs yet, but it does sound promising. Oxy Magic, on the other hand, contains alcohol, so I would never use it on 78s. In addition to the hydrogen peroxide in Oxy Deep, there is glycol ether, some surfactants, perservatives, and water. I am not sure if the glycol ether is harmful to shellac in 78s, so maybe someone else on the asylum can help us here. I did purchase a bottle of just hydrogen peroxide from the drugstore thinking this would be a safer approach for 78s, but I have not tried it on a trashed 78 yet.

I sometimes prewash the 78s in the punchbowl as I described; treat the bad ones with buggtussel enzyme; then wash and rinse them again on my old Nitty Gritty 3.0 machine. However, all of this work will never overcome the damage done from metal needles and heavy tonearms. The only ones that I own that are totally quiet are classical 78s like old Victor recordings of Caruso, etc. that were probably played only once.

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Woolite is a cold water wash detergent that has the same - hiatt@alaska.net 12:18:49 04/22/07 (4)

Great references. - M3 lover 12:38:16 04/22/07 (0)

Apologize for no URLs for the links, but . . . - hiatt@alaska.net 12:37:33 04/22/07 (2)

A little HTML code for you - Metralla 16:11:16 04/22/07 (1)

Thanks a bunch . . . nt - hiatt@alaska.net 16:44:01 04/22/07 (0)

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Woolite is a cold water wash detergent that has the same - hiatt@alaska.net 12:18:49 04/22/07 (4)

Great references. - M3 lover 12:38:16 04/22/07 (0)

Apologize for no URLs for the links, but . . . - hiatt@alaska.net 12:37:33 04/22/07 (2)

A little HTML code for you - Metralla 16:11:16 04/22/07 (1)

Thanks a bunch . . . nt - hiatt@alaska.net 16:44:01 04/22/07 (0)

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