[78-L] Best way to clean 78s

[David Lennick]

Not sure WHEN you'd have to replace it..my current bottle has lasted for 3 or 4 
years. Of course we're talking about a product that's part of an industry 
that's being made more redundant every second by things digital.

Okay, correct spelling is Photo-Flo. You remember Flo.

dl

On 12/30/2010 10:51 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> You too huh? I bought a few extra bottles of photoflow (here in the Houston
> Texas area) just in case they quit making it one day. Not sure yet what I'd
> replace it with.....
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> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Any camera store carries PhotoFlow. 1:200 mixed with steam distilled water.
> That's what I use in the Monks cleaner.
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> 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
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>>> record that's clean enough to audition on a non-critical player.
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>> 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.
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