Using Wood Glue To Clean Vinyl Records

[DSD_Mastering]

I'd never do that.

We always use ultrasonic cleaners made for LP's.

[Hane]

Originally Posted by DSD_Mastering

I'd never do that.

We always use ultrasonic cleaners made for LP's.

Is that the Audio Desk Systeme?

[Greg Reierson]

It actually works pretty well. I tried it on one side of an LP and use the VPI on the second side. The glue left a little bit of residue but followed by the VPI was great. It's just too slow to be practical.

[DSD_Mastering]

Originally Posted by Hane

Is that the Audio Desk Systeme?

Yes...

[Cheebs Goat]

I am no authority at all on doing this for mastering, but I'll say this:

I bought a record for a dollar or two at a yard sale. It was unplayable due to dirt. I did the glue thing. It was much better.

That's going from "disaster" to "below average". I can say nothing on going from "something you would want to digitize" to "perfect".

[Hane]

As for using wood glue. If you you've got a lot of records to clean; means waiting hours for the glue to dry, then you'll have to peel off the glue and risk leaving bits of glue stuck in the groove.

The whole process seems laborious and messy compared to using a record cleaning machine.

[kreeper_6]

You'd probably be better off trying something like this, its a gelatinous glob. Grabs everything.

[finetuner]

Granted it's an original idea but i'll stick to my record cleaner...

[Dr. Mordo]

I experimented with glue-record-cleaning quite a bit, and found it far less effective than spraying the record with a large amount of cleaning fluid, spreading it around, letting it sit for 2ish minutes, then vacuuming it off.

[807Recordings]

I remember so many years ago one guy thought he could use windex to clean his records. Actually they did come out rather clean and so a few others got on about it and started using it. Of course a few cleanings later these same people started to notice subtle low level noise to the records......

Glass cleaner contains sand, not exactly compatible with polymer type products


Would be interesting to see exactly what glue cleaner is doing. If I have some rare vinyl I am still going to use the good ol machine.