[78-L] Cleaning lacquers

Cary Ginell soundthink at live.com
Fri Sep 25 17:11:24 PDT 2009


So what are lacquers made of?

 

Cary Ginell
 
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:49:20 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cleaning lacquers
> 
> 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?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Cary Ginell
> > 
> >> 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
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>>>
> >>>>> I'll be vewy, vewy qwiet. 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cawy Ginell
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> 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....
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Windex.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The original blue formula, not the supermarket generic, not the extra strength.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Shhhh.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> dl
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cary Ginell wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How does one clean lacquers? I have a collection of them and some have what looks like mold on the grooves. 
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> These date from the late '40s to the early '60s.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Cary Ginell
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
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