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Post by jazzbones on Jul 11, 2015 12:28:58 GMT
I've seen this recommended by MartinT plus others and as a result went on the inty and was amazed at the cost!!!!!! One outlet showed as £50.00p for 1 ltr postage free in the UK. Now is this pure concentrate to be mixed with distilled pure water or is this solution to be used straight out of the bottle? If any of you are using this stuff what do you pay and where do you buy from? At the moment I'm using the straight out of the bottle fluid from Russ Andrews, I mean the record cleaning fluid not his bodily fluids . Okay, I know I could make up my own solution but buying all the various required ingredients would add up considerably or am I misinformed about this?
Thanks for any advice and or pointers. By the way I use a Moth Pro RCM with reverse spin facility. For really filthy records resembling a much used door mat I wet bath the offending record first in a Disco thing then a Spin Clean and lastly on my RCM, it really gets ALL the dirt out and results are very rewarding. Okay, I know some of you will be shaking your heads and say that I am a compulsive over cleaner of records but thats how my collection of over 50 years is still playable and more important enjoyable. Thanks, Ron
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Post by MartinT on Jul 11, 2015 12:34:51 GMT
I use it as it comes. One bottle lasts a long time and it's still the very best of all the fluids I've tried.
I buy from Audio Affair. £40 last time I checked.
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 11, 2015 13:04:54 GMT
I buy a couple of litres of isoprop alcohol (for about 15 quid the last time) and mix up my own solution. I've had an RCM for a lot of years (well over 10) and I'm only on my second batch of alcohol.
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Post by jazzbones on Jul 11, 2015 13:29:41 GMT
I use it as it comes. One bottle lasts a long time and it's still the very best of all the fluids I've tried. I buy from Audio Affair. £40 last time I checked. Martin, is that £40 for the 1 ltr or 0.5ltr bottle? Looks like Audio Affair only sell the 0.5ltr at £40? I would say this is pretty expensive!
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Post by jazzbones on Jul 11, 2015 13:40:21 GMT
I buy a couple of litres of isoprop alcohol (for about 15 quid the last time) and mix up my own solution. I've had an RCM for a lot of years (well over 10) and I'm only on my second batch of alcohol. Hiya Chris, my daughterinlaw got me a very small bottle of laboratory grade IP but for the life of me I don't know where I, or the wife, put it, I know we didn't drink it! Unfortunately, the German company she works for keeps a very tight audit on what goes out of the place so I dare not ask for more. Where do you buy your IP from and is there a prob with safe shipment nowadays?
The distilled water, IP and Ilford Isofotal route seams a very popular route. Saw a post somewhere on the inty where vinegar was used instead of IP but # hell no for me. Its good stuff to clean off lime scale on kettles but I would not want it near my precious vinyl apart from them ending up smelling like a tossed salad!
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Post by ChrisB on Jul 11, 2015 14:50:11 GMT
Hi Ron, I can't remember where I got my last bottle from but it was certainly posted to me. A quick Google shows it is available on Amazon as well as several other sellers.
Funnily enough, not for record cleaning use, but I bought some just the other week in a Walmart in Visalia, California. We needed some spirit for fuel for our Trangia camping stove - I usually use meths for this but couldn't find any. It was just there on the shelf next to the elastoplast and veruka cream! I disposed of it the morning before our flight home and received rather more attention than was comfortable from the officers of the US Customs and Immigration Service because they swabbed my hands and the machine which tests for traces of drugs/bombs/whatever went beep in a bad way. Oops! "Would you please follow me sir?"
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