![]() As long as the level of the reservoir is close to the filter, you'll find it is very effective. As to the actual operation, I have a lot of CDs and relish the chance for cleaning and drying to be done with the press of a single button. ![]() To avoid evaporation, keep in a cool place and avoid exposing the unit for extended periods in sunlight or unshielded heat. I don't think the issue is much different than the cleaning fluid in, say, a Nitty Gritty Record Cleaning Machine. The manual does expect you can clean up to 100 discs in a single session, which would correspond to one mostly "draining" the reservoir, even manually doing this with any remaining fluid by using the underlying removable plastic plug.) However one may risk damaging the system by excessive cleaning of discs in a single session. Fans and enthusiasts who are passionate will enjoy this best groove. To fill the "reservoir" you do need quite a lot of the fluid. DiscWasher Vinyl Record Cleaning - Best Record Cleaner Ever - YouTube The Original DiscWasher Vinyl record brush cleaner. (In fact the instructions are somewhat misleading. Probably the main area of caution (as pointed out by a fellow SNA member) is not to clean too many discs in a single session. Isn't pretty, but highly functional.Having had this unit for over a month, I'd tentatively recommend it. Basically, mine consists of a cheap wetvac from Harbor Freight, about 5 bucks worth of PVC pipe and adapters, about 8 bucks worth of Velcro, duct tape and an old turntable with the arm removed. I realized I needed a new Discwasher and bought some on eBay. This was a revelation I hadn’t listened to records very often for years. ![]() I use standard unscented Swiffer sheets in place of the Discwasher for general cleaning, and a very cheaply made RCM for anything more than that. Around 2010 my younger son (a musician and recording engineer) told me that some of the bands he was recording were releasing their music on vinyl. Add the distilled water back in til the gallon jug is full, shake well and you have quite a nice supply.Įven so, I find the Discwasher system to be rather obsolete. ![]() This keeps the solution from beading and lets it sink down into the grooves, where the gunk is. Else use a few drops of Dawn, or any surfactant that you can find. Add to the remaining distilled water 1 bottle of the highest percentage pure isopropyl alcohol that you can get your hands on, 1/2 cup of Lysol and 40 drops of Kodak Photoflow, if you can find it. My old D4 I use for scrubbing records on an RCM.thats about all they are good for.ĭump out about 1/3 of a gallon of distilled water into a very clean container (I use quart mason jars). I really envied my friends' older D3 brush. I discovered this when buying a Discwasher around 1980-81 at the exact time that they switched over. It has some sort of half-assed courderoy fabric that just doesn't work as well as the D3. These catalogues were saved to the local drive and could be searched for that artwork you know you created a couple of years ago for that guy called Dave but can’t quite remember the actual file name. What's important in distinguishing between them isn't the fluid, but the brush. It was great for cataloguing disks/external media as it could read inside zip and Stuffit files. Does anyone else remember that differently? In other words, I don't think D3 and D4 were offered as alternatives for different purposes at the same time when D4 came out it replaced D3. I suspect that after they sold D3 for a long time, D4 was announced as "new and improved" whatever that usually means. I don't have any recollection of what the numbers meant. I recall that the original Diskwasher fluids had a faint hint of alcohol smell, and suspect that there wasn't much more to them than distilled water, a bit of alcohol, and a wetting agent to break surface tension. The dry part of the brush removes some more dust, and also any residual moisture left on the record. And the water also helps remove static electricity. The record barely gets wet, but the wet part of the brush is good at sweeping out some kinds of dust. Then you lightly place the moistened area of the brush against the spinning record, very gradually turning it so that the area of the record cleaned with the moistened area, is then cleaned with the dry area of the brush. The diskwasher instructions say to put 3 or 4 drops of solution along one side of the brush surface, and then wipe along them (I use the base of the bottle) to spread the moisture.
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