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In Reply to: RE: Rice Krispies blues rant posted by sleeper on April 16, 2025 at 19:26:40
I would clean again rather than go down without a fight. As you probably know, the design problem with vacuum cleaning is getting the air velocity just right. Too much power risks accelerating the carrier fluid so quickly that heavier particles that can't accelerate as fast fall out of suspension . perhaps your home brew travels more readily than the OEM stuff, I don't know.might be time to investigate ultrasonic cleaning, the new state of the art. it has a very successful record in the aerospace industry.
you might also investigate static mitigation. I haven't personally investigated this, but just saw a very effective high end music room video where the owner was using a battery powered electric spark BBQ lighter from amazon and said the plasma worked better than his zero stat gun. when the spark is straight, he knows the static charge is corrected.
of course, the first thing to check is the interface with the needle, mentioned here only for beginners.
all the best with your new records. which ones did you get? I enjoy that stuff so much.
Edits: 04/17/25
bc, I'm likely older than you so remember having a hand puppet I ordered for one of the three. That was too large for the cereal box.
I have many ECMs which overall have very good production qualities. But none of those are current production. I agree further investigation/cleaning may be called for.
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho
I suppose that only on a vinyl audio forum would one find participants having an "old off" contest . come to think of it, I might have had to save box tops and mail away for the three guys. I doubt if money was involved , at my young financial situation. . but I did greatly enjoy puppets , back when kids made hand puppets out of brown paper bags , and the marionette howdy dudey was on tv. along with other hand puppets . my favorite was probably Cecil the seasick sea serpent.the last time I mentioned boxed cereal to a young single mother of two, she said cereal was now five dollars a box, and her kids could forget about getting any.
Edits: 04/18/25
as the Rice Krispies hand puppet I received a Howdy Doody marionette for Christmas. That was not anything I ask for but I watched the show on TV. So "Santa" probably thought I'd like having one.
One Christmas gift I loved at that age or earlier was the 78 album of Spike Jones performing The Nutcracker Suite. ;^)
"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing, if you can fake that you've got it made." Groucho
I have a friend who has an ultrasonic cleaner and will run these LPs through his system to see if anything improves. Maybe it is time for me to move to a new record cleaning technology. And my static regimen consists of a zap from the Milty ZeroStat. My wife, who was a professional photographer, has a more powerful device that she used to use in the old days of film to control static on negatives. I'm going to dig that out and give these LPs a blast. Thanks.
Let us know how you get on. I use a manual RCM and still get some clicks and pops from an otherwise silent disc and wonder if ultrasonic would take care of those (?). Discs with a lot of crackle I assume are bad pressings and beyond saving. Regarding static, you can get a humidity monitor for only $10 on amazon so you can correlate to see if you get more clicks when humidity is low.
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