It’s the ultimate turntable companion and your ticket to vinyl nirvana without breaking the bank. The Mondo kit unites GrooveWasher’s core products into an essential record care system with elegance and precision. Instead, I will focus on the package deal. I’ve been using G2 and SC1 as my main cleaning fluids for many years now, so I need no further convincing on their formula’s safety and effectiveness. The research and care taken over GrooveWasher’s cleaning fluids is a known entity for me. (Check out the before and after USB microscope images in our full review to see the full effect). GrooveWasher’s SC1 stylus kit is just as effective as their G2 fluid. Keeping your stylus clean is equally as important as maintaining a clean record collection, as the inevitable build-up of dust and grime on the diamond stylus tip will shorten its life, reduce fidelity, and potentially spread dirt to your clean records. (Again, for an overview on how to use GrooveWasher G2 effectively, check out our full-feature review). In general, most records will clean up nicely with little effort, but very dirty records may benefit from repeating the cleaning steps as outlined in the included instruction pamphlet. The G2 cleaning fluid review includes before and after audio samples of a very dirty used record I was able to restore using GrooveWasher’s formula and a little patience. For this review’s purpose, I will keep it brief and refer to the earlier articles. Isn't pretty, but highly functional.In terms of results, I’ve reviewed both the G2 record fluid and the SC1 stylus cleaning kit extensively in the previous articles linked, respectively. 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 use standard unscented Swiffer sheets in place of the Discwasher for general cleaning, and a very cheaply made RCM for anything more than that. 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. What's important in distinguishing between them isn't the fluid, but the brush. 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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