[78-L] Capitol schmutz

[David Lennick]

I haven't used Lens Cleaner..at the risk of arousing the Disc Doctor's wrath 
(and we haven't heard from him for a while), I'll advocate Windex for cleaning 
lacquers. Works beautifully because of the small amount of ammonia in it, and 
then you rinse it out.

dl

On 7/17/2011 4:34 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> No, no, no, PhotoFlo is used for breaking the surface tension of water
> and can be used safely on any 78 - shellac , vinyl or lacquer. It's
> Kodak Lens Cleaner that works on lacquer schmutz! What I'm looking for
> is the water to Lens Cleaner ratio (if any).
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> On 7/17/2011 9:05 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> 1:200 is the standard mixture (PhotoFlo and Steam Distilled Water) but you can
>> go to 2:200 for oilier discs. I find that exuded stuff on thousands of records
>> and I don't know if it's from the shellac or some interaction with the material
>> in the sleeve. It almost never turns up on 78s that were housed in dry cabinets
>> in green sleeves at CFRB and the CBC Toronto, but similar discs in similar
>> sleeves from CBC Halifax are always gooped up.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 7/17/2011 2:58 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>> I've been going through my Blues 78s for the first time in years and
>>> getting myself reacquainted with them. I had forgotten just what was
>>> there and many were uncataloged so there are quite a number of pleasant
>>> surprises!
>>>
>>> Anyhow, one odd surprise was finding a copy of Leadbelly on red label
>>> Capitol 40130 (Irene b/w Backwater Blues). from the early 50s. Both
>>> sides were covered in this partially hardened white glop that resembles
>>> the castor oil exudate one finds on lacquers. I've never seen this occur
>>> on a shellac and the records surrounding it are all fine. Could it be
>>> that Capitol was playing with their formulation? The disc "rings" like a
>>> regular shellac but sounds somewhat duller, as if it's not a normal
>>> shellac mix. Could it have been plasticized enough for it to "mold"?
>>>
>>> Anyone else find a Capitol doing this?
>>>
>>> On a related note, Kodak Lens Cleaner seems to work (whereas my regular
>>> cleaning solution does not work well at all), but not as well as it does
>>> on lacquers.
>>>
>>> Would somebody please refresh me on the correct water to lens cleaner
>>> ratio I should be using for lacquers?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Malcolm
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