Lp cleaner

I think you can still buy a Hunt EDA brush. Try an Audio T branch - I bought one there last year.

Or, for a better clean, go wet and get a VPI HW16.5 (obviously at 45 x the cost of a Hunt EDA)

DS

I bought my hunty in 1986 and have no idea of the cost today?
I'm sorry I have no idea what the other device is ,could you plz elaborate
ta

Action,

visit this site - there is also a forum in German as well as English
www.vinyl-rules.de

Have Fun
Urs

Right the vpi looks promising .....All I need is aapprox price and contact details if poss?????
thx for all the help so far

I think the vpi is around £1500. I've heard good things about the Loricraft item as well for similar money.

Regards,
Frank.
All opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of any organisations I work for, except where this is stated explicitly.

I prefer the Nitty Gritty manual models (~$250); they do offer 'automatic' models but from my experience, they simply do not clean an LP as well as you yourself scrubbing the record.

On a related note, there was an interesting tidbit in the Analog Corner column of this month's Stereophile - it suggested that the Eureka Hot Shot 350A steam cleaner (~$75) worked very well when dealing with mistreated used records that have 'ground in dirt and caked-on crud'. Hmmm. Sounds like a good way for me to improve the sonic qualities of my collection of 25 cent LPs.

Erik

It sounds like the Nitty Gritty and the VPI do the same thing, but that the VPI is triple the cost of the Nitty Gritty. If the Nitty Gritty is still made and available near you, it would be worth checking out. It looks like the Dr. just beat me to it.

It sounds like the Nitty Gritty and the VPI do the same thing, but that the VPI is triple the cost of the Nitty Gritty. If the Nitty Gritty is still made and available near you, it would be worth checking out.

...is around £400, same in dollars if you're in the US. Great machine, I could make you one for half that price, they aren't particularly complex, but then if you buy at £400, I bet you could clean all your records, replace the brush and vacuum tube and sell it again for £275 s/h, such is their desirability and relative rarity...

TC '..'
"Girl, you thought he was a man, but he was a Muffin..."

The Moth2 kit is a doddle to build too

First take a load of bits....

Then build a box and drill a few holes...

Put all the bits in the box,wire them up and you end up with a record cleaner. Works very well too.

A rear end view with the remainder of the bits in place but without the lid.........

This seems to be a recurring theme on this forum. Someone asks for advice on some item (in this case a very good record cleaning device that costs a few pounds) and the responses start suggesting solutions costing an order of magnitude more i.e. hundreds of pounds.

We don't all have infinite budgets. Suggesting Rolls-Royce solutions to a request for a Ford Mondeo is not helpful.

I think the Hunt-Eda is still available and I'm sure any decent hi-fi store should be able to get hold of one - I may be wrong and probably am and will undoubtedly be told so by someone.

Reading this forum I'm constantly reminded of the joke about the difference between an engineer and a mathematician...

A beautfiful naked woman (insert favourite fantasy figure here) is lying on the bed across the room. She invites the engineer and mathematician to cross the room to service her but the must follow the rule that each step must be half the size of the preceding one. The mathematician walks away dissappointed saying that it is impossible. The engineer grins knowing that he can get close enough for practical purposes.

Seagull
Doing what seagulls do best... (apart from winning football matches that is)

After reading seagulls post I feel I must agree .
Thx for all advice,links and opinions.
But for £450 I could russle up a second hand hicap!

Hunty is on its way..
Once again thx all

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posted by Seagull FRIDAY 08 March 2002 12:15
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in defence of QS

My wife quite fancied their AV cabinet (at £900 it had better be good) but wanted to know whether the doors were made of safety glass. We emailled them on Sunday night, QS replied first thing next day.

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I guess you have a different set of priorities to the rest of us here then?

Got any cheaper recommendations for something to sit the TV on?

P

BTW at £200 the Moth kit is very good VFM

the stand it came with.

I did say it was my wife who fancied it, she hates being able to see the pile of boxes under the tv (dvd player, vhs and cable box) together with the resultant spaghetti.

I agree that £900 for a cupboard is a LOT of money. I didn't say that we had actually BOUGHT one of the things.

Being married, with 2 kids - the second a recent unplanned addition means that any expenditure has to be carefully negotiated. Considering a stand/cupboard for the TV was a compromise offer so that I could have a cd player and some new speakers (again my wife's suggestion - she hates the look of my old ones - I didn't argue I know they are the weak link in my system) even if it did increase the potential budget to ridiculous levels - I could afford a new Naim CD player with the extra money rather than considering cheaper options.

When she worked, she was an accountant - I'm convinced that she thinks that double entry book keeping means that the same money can be spent twice

I found that dry cleaning just didnt cut it on
thrift store lps. So I went with the Orbitrac
which is a manual wet cleaning system that sells
for around $35 USD. That worked quite well, until
I could afford a VPI16.5 (11x the cost).

see http://www.soundstage.com/upton05.htm

I have problems with mould on my records from the humid summers in durban South Africa. I have found the following equipment that works wonderfully:

a new toothbrush
all in one saline solution for contact lenses(Sauflon). This is a VERY weak detergent but ideal.
water to rinse

I scrube the record with the solution and brush in the groove direction. You can feel the grooves take the toothbrush brissles around the correct way. Scrub for a minute of two, then carefully rinse with water, turning it round so as not to get water on the middle paper. Our water is soft so I can rinse from the tap but I can imagine those of you who have hard water would need to rinse with cold kettle water.

Try it on a record that you are not too fussed about (come on you must have one!) and give it a go.

Its labour (of love) intensive but its "dirt" cheap.

Bruce

I have found the Disc Doctor as recommended here by Phil and Eric Barry to be excellent. After you get the hang of rinsing it is excellent. I find if I also use the dry audioquest brush I get too much static though.

www.discdoc.com

John.