[78-L] Cleaning lacquers

[David Lennick]

Note that I didn't say anything about using Windex on shellac, only the 
PhotoFlo-Distilled Water mix. Johnson doesn't divulge the formula although 
Graham Newton has it somewhere.

dl

Cary Ginell wrote:
> Doesn't Windex have alcohol in it? That would be terror on any shellac-based disc, wouldn't it?
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> Cary Ginell
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>> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:17:19 -0400
>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cleaning lacquers
>>
>> Distilled water + PhotoFlo is also excellent..a lot of use that in the Monks 
>> Record Cleaning Machine, fine for all surfaces (shellac, vinyl, lacquer). But 
>> W**dex is less reliant on the Monks' system of brush in, vacuum out.
>>
>> dl
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>> Michael Biel wrote:
>>> maceo wrote:
>>>> It's wabbit season!
>>>>
>>>> I made up a blend from the old Library of Congress formula, a wetting 
>>>> agent in distilled water, if you need the formula I can try and find it?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>>
>>> Could that be Kodak Lens Cleaner, aluminum somethingorother, as Chris 
>>> Payton in Georgia wrote about in the ARSC Journal?
>>>
>>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
>>>> Cary Ginell wrote:
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>>>>> I'll be vewy, vewy qwiet. 
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>>>>> Cawy Ginell
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>>>>>> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:22:54 -0400
>>>>>> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
>>>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cleaning lacquers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm going to say this very softly, knowing that Dr. Duane will scream, but 
>>>>>> believe me, this works very well on the white stuff that appears on lacquer 
>>>>>> discs (palmitic acid) as long as you give it another cleaning with distilled 
>>>>>> water....
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>>>>>> Windex.
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>>>>>> The original blue formula, not the supermarket generic, not the extra strength.
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>>>>>> Shhhh.
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>>>>>> dl
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>>>>>> Cary Ginell wrote:
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>>>>>>> How does one clean lacquers? I have a collection of them and some have what looks like mold on the grooves. 
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>>>>>>> These date from the late '40s to the early '60s.
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>>>>>>> Cary Ginell
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