[78-L] Best way to clean 78s

[David Lennick]

Any camera store carries PhotoFlow. 1:200 mixed with steam distilled water. 
That's what I use in the Monks cleaner.

dl

On 12/30/2010 7:57 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> On 12/29/2010 1:47, David Lennick wrote:
>> And for those, you can probably do without the soap. I used to keep a j-cloth
>> in my travel bag when I went on record hunting trips and I'd give the records
>> an initial cleaning as soon as I bought them. The grunge is a lot more
>> encrusted these days, but in a pinch I'd say that method would still get you a
>> record that's clean enough to audition on a non-critical player.
>>
> Consider the pollutants on many old records. If they didn't heat with
> coal, they heated with oil. More people smoked in those days as well.
> Even if a record was put in a cabinet, the records were coated with a
> substance that make them magnets of dust, dirt and record grindings.
> We used to use a wetting solution made from photoflow, but that is
> getting hard to find. I am using dish soap, a very dilute solution and I
> don't let the label get wet.
>