Vinyl Record Cleaning? best results using the Okki Nokki ?

[frankvanhelvert]

yes! finally someone with common sense!! the key for cleaning effectively is-AGITATION-!!!or scrubbing to get the grim in to suspence, i would personally moving the brush a bit faster and longer to really see the """foam"" but i""am glad you discover how it should be!! thanks for the video!!

[alkebulansan]

I'd appreciate a before and after. Does this machine remove the crackle that's caused from dust particles, not scratches of course. Are your records noticebly quieter and offer a more detailed sounstage after cleaning with this machine? Thanks.

[Matasky]

The brush is really designed to spread the cleaner evenly across the surface, not to scrub the surface and create bubbles/suds. The cleaner contains surfactants that break surface tension, allowing cleaner to settle into the grooves and loosen the gunk through a chemical reaction- not by agitation- the brush bristles are too large to actually fit IN the tiny grooves. The gunk/debris is then 'suspended' in the solution until the vacuum sucks it out. By letting the cleaner sit for a longer time (a few minutes?) it can more effectively loosen the gunk in the grooves. Scrubbing does clean the record of course, but you're not actually scrubbing IN the grooves with that brush- you're cleaning the surface.

[jc]

great job, learned alot. Like your process

[uptowntoodeloo]

This is a great how-to. I have had an Okki Nokki for years. I find it interesting that you - and many others - recommend a distilled water rinse cycle (after L'Art du Son cleaning cycle) since Okki Nokki themselves fail to list that as a step in their own manual. Why do you think they committed that step? I must say that I wish I had watched this years ago because I have cleaned hundreds of albums without a rinse cycle. Do I now need to go back to every single once and simply give them each a rinse? What a huge bummer.