Cleaning Fluid For Wet- Played 45 Required

[Hermanthegerman]

Need to clean a wet-played record, as far as I know it´s only possible with some liquid, that gets hard if applied on the record and you can pull it off the record surface then.

Anybody got an idea, where I can buy this stuff?

Any help appreciated.....

[mischief]

Okay I have no idea what your on about... but looked up wet played.. and came across this...

https://www.soundfountain.com/amb/rc1.html#WET

[mischief]

Found this as well... (sorry i've never heard of it before)...

https://www.discomusic.com/101-more/6193_0_7_0_C/

Wet Playing Your Records

Never "wet play" your vinyl records. Thoroughly clean AND dry them before playing. "Wet playing" sounds like an ideal solution-at first. In reality the liquid starts to evaporate as the record is played and the needle just starts to dig the junk further into the grooves and now contaminates the entire disc. It clogs up the styli muddying the sound and can cause damage to the styli and cantilever as water seeps into the cracks and erodes the glue that holds it together.

As this crud starts to dry it just makes it more difficult to now properly clean the record. Once a record is "wet played" it needs to be played that way again to sound acceptable.

With thousands of records in our music collections the last thing one wants to do is ruin them. Please don't "wet play" a record unless you know that you are going to discard the disc and want to get one last shot at archiving / restoring it to a digital medium.

[Hermanthegerman]

Found this as well... (sorry i've never heard of it before)...

https://www.discomusi...e/6193_0_7_0_C/

Wet Playing Your Records

Never "wet play" your vinyl records. Thoroughly clean AND dry them before playing. "Wet playing" sounds like an ideal solution-at first. In reality the liquid starts to evaporate as the record is played and the needle just starts to dig the junk further into the grooves and now contaminates the entire disc. It clogs up the styli muddying the sound and can cause damage to the styli and cantilever as water seeps into the cracks and erodes the glue that holds it together.

As this crud starts to dry it just makes it more difficult to now properly clean the record. Once a record is "wet played" it needs to be played that way again to sound acceptable.

With thousands of records in our music collections the last thing one wants to do is ruin them. Please don't "wet play" a record unless you know that you are going to discard the disc and want to get one last shot at archiving / restoring it to a digital medium.

Yep, mate. That´s what I´m on about.

There´s special liquids you can play records wet with and they sound better. Prob is, once this shitty stuff dries in the grooves, the record beginns to sound really naff if played the normal dry way. I´m quite sure that´s the problem with a 45 I acquired.

I know there´s special cleaning stuff out there which removes the remainder from the grooves...

Thanks btw for taking your time with my question

Edited April 9, 2010 by hermanthegerman

[ImberBoy]

Yep, mate. That´s what I´m on about.

There´s special liquids you can play records wet with and they sound better. Prob is, once this shitty stuff dries in the grooves, the record beginns to sound really naff if played the normal dry way. I´m quite sure that´s the problem with a 45 I acquired.

I know there´s special cleaning stuff out there which removes the remainder from the grooves...

Thanks btw for taking your time with my question

Gerd did you get sorted mate? let me know if you need anything from England my old friend.

[Hermanthegerman]

Hi, Si

No, not sorted yet, thought somebody on here might know...

But thanks a lot for the offer, hope to see you again in good old Germany soon

[Hermanthegerman]

[Hermanthegerman]

...just if somebody else wondered what I´m on about

[boba]

...just if somebody else wondered what I´m on about

I've seen record cleaning fluids that claim to clean wet played records.

I think the method you refer to in your initial post is just covering it with wood clue and peeling it off, you can try it, pretty harmless if you don't get the label as once it dries it will come off.

I think another thing you can try is to wet play it with something like glass cleaner on an old fisher price but put enough on it to KEEP IT WET so that the gunk stays dug up, then either use a record vacuum like a VPI or a lint free cloth to quickly soak up, clean off the solution. Then clean with water. I've gotten some wet played records playable this way before. I think most of the other sites that specifically say once a record is wet played it can only ever be wet played again refer to LPs, because it's almost impossible to keep it wet the entire time and then remove the solution so that the gunk is cleaned off before it sets back in. With a 45 it's much smaller and plays quickly so it's not as hard.

Edited April 10, 2010 by boba

[Hermanthegerman]

Hi Boba

already tried glass- cleaner with no success

If you accidently stumble across one of those cleaning fluids you were talking of it would be kind to leave me a note, might save Tobi Legend from the dustbin

Tia

[FrankM]

Hi Boba

already tried glass- cleaner with no success

If you accidently stumble across one of those cleaning fluids you were talking of it would be kind to leave me a note, might save Tobi Legend from the dustbin

Tia

PVA school or craft glue but not the wood glue.

There's a whole thread dedicated to it here

[boba]

PVA school or craft glue but not the wood glue.

There's a whole thread dedicated to it here

I would have said "elmer's school glue" but I didn't know if that was a known thing in the UK so I just said "wood glue". I swear it says "wood glue" on it though.

I was talking about wet playing it with glass cleaner, by the way, not just cleaning it with glass cleaner.

[Hermanthegerman]

I would have said "elmer's school glue" but I didn't know if that was a known thing in the UK so I just said "wood glue". I swear it says "wood glue" on it though.

I was talking about wet playing it with glass cleaner, by the way, not just cleaning it with glass cleaner.

yes, that´s what I understood, have successfully done that with really dirty 45´s for years, didn´t work on that 45....

[Hermanthegerman]

PVA school or craft glue but not the wood glue.

There's a whole thread dedicated to it here

Thanks for that, mate. Same was suggested to me by Mark Whiteley as I started the thread, pics look promising....