prk@charm.UUCP (Paul Kolodner) (08/09/85)
How do you clean your records? What should be done to preserve them forever? Are well-known products like Discwasher good or bad? How about record preservatives like LAST and Sound Guard? How do you take care of your stylus? I would find it extremely useful to get new ideas along these lines. I personally have some very strong feelings of my own, which have led me to a specific record-cleaning regimen, but I'm open to new ideas. Send me mail or post articles, and, if it looks interesting, I'll post a summary, along with my own dogma.
ong@eneevax.UUCP (Chong Ong) (08/17/85)
One of my friends uses Isopropyl Alcohol. I was rather skeptic
when I tried it on some of my records, but it does appear to
keep fungi from growing on it when the weather gets humid. Static
buildup also appears to be markedly reduced.
Note: Since I have only tried this out recently, I still don't
know what are the long-term effects (if any) on the records.
So far, (6 months later), they sound fine. One advantage is that
Isopropyl Alcohol is cheap and easily available at your local
drugstore. I use the purer ones (above 90% alcohol by volume).
JueyChong Ong
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BITNET: ong%eneevax.arpa@WISCVMben@moncol.UUCP (Bennett Broder) (08/21/85)
>One of my friends uses Isopropyl Alcohol. I was rather skeptic >when I tried it on some of my records, but it does appear to >keep fungi from growing on it when the weather gets humid. Static >buildup also appears to be markedly reduced. > >Note: Since I have only tried this out recently, I still don't >know what are the long-term effects (if any) on the records. >So far, (6 months later), they sound fine. One advantage is that >Isopropyl Alcohol is cheap and easily available at your local >drugstore. I use the purer ones (above 90% alcohol by volume). From what I've read, using alcohol is not a very good idea. It supposedly removes and inactivates the preservatives in the vinyl. All of the well-respected record cleaning products (Discwasher comes to mind) are water based. Since a bottle of D-4 large enough to last 6 months costs about two dollars, why take the risk? Ben Broder ..vax135!petsd!moncol!ben ..ihnp4!princeton!moncol!ben