kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
I have not been able to compare them head to head, but it does a better job than my Squeaky Clean, which I already liked very much.
Durability/longevity is still a question mark, of course.
New ultrasonic vinyl cleaner in the works: Humminguru
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Durability/longevity is still a question mark, of course.
kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
Nah. You can remove it and rinse it out easily. I don't see swapping it unless it becomes visibly gunky.
dansomeone
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vinylcleaner888
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This guy on youtube, polypetalous, seems to be posting negative reviews. Is he just using vinyl in bad shape that cleaning (of any sort) won't help? Hard to square his take with the positive takes here.
MikeH
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Wouldn’t be surprised if he spent $5k on a cleaner that does the same thing that a $380 machine does…nothing is ever going to have 100% positive reviews.
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DownIsTheNewUp
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So wait, this thing goes live on the 18th at what time if I live in CA? Or is it technically the 17th for the US?
Diaper Baby Escape Plan
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It's 2000 (GMT+8) on the 18th so (someone check my math), should be 0400 PST
kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
I'm listening to his review now and I dunno, doesn't line up with my experience so far at all. He's comparing it to larger, more expensive ultrasonics that use more transducers without noting that they also use four or five times as much water and have a correspondingly larger volume to energize. He doesn't like the use of distilled water, which is something you can easily fix by adding a drop of surfactant (as I do) to break the surface tension.
I'm genuinely curious if some of the issues he ran into are the result of static from air-drying in a low-humidity environment. Especially since he then immediately wet-cleaned it with spray and fixed the issue.
dansomeone
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I trust the people here. Their takes are fact based and specific about how the machine has performed for them. And they have no reason to exaggerate. People here have no problem telling it like it is. That's kind of how this whole forum started.
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kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
I don't think polypetalous is being malicious at all, but he is convinced that ultrasonic cleaning won't work with only distilled water, which is simply not true. In fact, it's one of the major benefits of the technology.
That said, he is correct that really truly cruddy records would benefit from either a pre-wash to get off the serious gunk or an extra long wash cycle. I think a drop of surfactant and a ZeroStat would solve a lot of his issues.
That said, he is correct that really truly cruddy records would benefit from either a pre-wash to get off the serious gunk or an extra long wash cycle. I think a drop of surfactant and a ZeroStat would solve a lot of his issues.
MikeH
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What surfactant do you use? Did you say you used Photoflo somewhere?
kvetcha
Chet Hanks' Filmography Buff
Yeah, I have a bottle of PhotoFlo from back when I was mixing my own solution. I use a single small drop in the tank and it seems to do the job.
MikeH
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I’ve resisted because I didn’t want to add anything else to the tank per their instructions. But one or two of my records I cleaned last night still had some ticks and pops despite visually looking clean. Might be a humidity issue.
Assuming this is the stuff?
dansomeone
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MikeH
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I'm pretty hesitant to add any kind of cleaning solutions into this machine to be honest...trying to avoid adding anything beyond a surfactant to it. Since a lot of the pieces inside the machine are plastic, I don't really wanna introduce anything that could potentially degrade the parts.