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Topic: Cleaning 78s

  27th May 2019, 9:23 AM
j.monk

Member since Sep 2017
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I used some vinyl cleaning product for my very first 78 and that was a disaster, obviously ! :thumbsup:

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Though, the sound quality did not much deteriorate.
It's a dub, and I bought an original Brunswick copy since.

Now, I do mostly like Scrough: I use water with a small drop of washing up liquid (avoid too much foam !), and I rub the record with a sponge following the grooves (unlike what Bussard does on his video), then I rinse, I use a paint brush, and rinse again, but I dry the record immediately with a microfiber fabric, as I had pretty bad experiences when I let the records dry by themselves on a plate rack.
Works pretty well for me, and I can play my records pretty quickly after the cleaning.

Edited by moderator on 28th May 2019, 8:57 AM

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