A few ways to not really clean a record

Trying a few different vinyl record cleaning solutions - including pressure-washing a particularly troublesome disc.
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[Techmoan]

A few people asked if the record cleaner spray and micro fibre cloth I used at the end of the video on the normal record removed the noise. Unfortunately not. This spray/cloth was also how I’d attempted to clean the Trimicron record in the past before giving the other ideas you saw demonstrated a try.
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[deusexaethera]

The problem is plain to see. That record is covered with microscopic grooves and bumps. Give it a good polish with a Dremel and some polishing compound and it will be much quieter.

[PumpkinPails]

This man woke up one day and decided he needed to power wash a Beethoven record. What an absolute delight and legend this man is.

[dcflake]

Your neighbours must wonder what the hell you are doing sometimes. Is he playing with the puppets again? No he's pressure washing a record.

[dorkultra]

only Techmoan would have a sink that is perfectly shaped to clean a record lol

[theerrantwanderer]

I've heard that pops and crackles also result from the decay of the record itself: some records were made using low quality vinyl mixtures that contained abrasives which broke down and created microscopic cracks in the grooves.

[williamgottlieb]

Just limit your record playing to the morning at breakfast time, when you are eating your Rice Krispies, and you won't notice!

[mfaizsyahmi]

> Somebody suggested pressure washing
> It's the 8-bit guy
I'm not even surprised. Maybe the feature is region-locked to Dallas, TX.

[mrmimeisfunny]

Attempting to Powerwash a record is such an 8 Bit Guy thing to do. Next time he might tell you to Retrobright it or to try Baking Soda.

[adelaiideAngel]

1:58 didnt trust that first product when i saw they spelled "Cleaning" as "Cleanig"

[thelifeofjools]

28 years as a DJ ... mostly used an ultra fine brush, whilst the record spun on the deck. Gotta say the best results were from a sink full of warm water, and a squirt of fairy liquid :) sad but true.
There is a difference of course between the wide groove 12 inch vs the album.
I got better results cleaning the 12" disc.
All the

[magreger]

Nice update to the original video. Seeing a record power washed and scrubbed in the sink was fun and amusing.

[DrCassette]

I have never had very good success removing the kind of high frequency crackle heard in this video. I've tried water and soap, the Disco Antistat cleaner bath and the Okki Nokki record cleaning machine. The crackle became less, but never disappeared which leads me to believe this may be caused by worn out or damaged grooves. Imagine the noise is not caused by a piece of dirt in the goove but by a piece of vinyl missing from the walls of the groove.

[SteveBrace]

An acetone bath for 24 hours will reduce crackles and scratches to zero... However this is because you will have nothing to play :D

[DokkaChapman]

When I started buying vinyl in my teen years the guy who's store I would shop at used to clean my purchases for no extra cost with an amazing machine that was like a cross between a record player & a vacuum cleaner. He'd pop some liquid on the side that needed cleaning and then switch the device on. It was about a minute per side and was pretty loud, but you could instantly tell the difference.

[Liam]

It seems to me your techniques are actually doing their cleaning job fine: they were full of dust, and then you looked again with the microscope and the dust was gone. So their job, in and off itself, is done correctly. That the vinyl still crackles, with no dust left, simply means the cracks didn't come from the dust to begin with.

[johnlovesbridge]

Some of the crackles were exactly the same in the before and after. That suggests record damage, or the product doing nothing. I think it's damage.

[erictheberry]

I love how the box says, "Cleanig Pack". Quite a professional product 😂

[bugradio]

When I hear pops like that, I tend to think they're tiny scratches more often than dirt/dust.
You should try this: An old school hip-hop DJ at my radio station showed me years ago, if your record is noisy like that, put down some water and let the stylus ride in a ring of liquid. It eats up all of those little pops, the difference is like night and day. When he told me this, I thought he was nuts, but it totally works.
(At one point, people at the station were using a bottle of record cleaning fluid instead of water, but that ran out quick).

[markpirateuk]

I recently got a job lot of really filthy 45's, using warm soapy water in a bowl with a dowel passed through the record's hole to allow it to spin in the water without the label getting wet. It worked pretty well, and in fact worked even better when the grooves were agitated with a soft brush.
A lot less hassle than using glue!