Cleaning Records

I've heard new vinyl sometimes has a residue but never experienced it before myself.

yeah I'm wondering if it's good practice to just run everything through the cleaner before I even play it. I feel like half of the new vinyl I get has some defect on it...a pop here, a scrape there, etc. a lot of times it goes away after a cleaning, but sometimes it doesn't. I think when records are pressed it's pretty common for stuff to just get lodged in the grooves and a lot of times it's hard to get out.

Yeah, I prioritize my oldest, dirtiest records, but any thing that shows a problem goes through now. I cleaned 60 this week so far. Hoping to get through everything this winter so that I can just clean new purchases going forward.

how often do you change the water out? I ran like 20 through, decided to just leave the tank full and do another batch the next day, but I'm not sure if that's a great idea

It probably depends on how big your tank is, but I do up to 60 (in batches of 5) in one tank. I usually top up the tank during the cleaning as some of the water comes off on the records.

The instructions for my tank says not to leave the the water in the tank for an extended period of time. No explanation of what that means, but I figure 24 hours probably won't hurt so I will do a run of 30 and then a run of 30 the next day. The water looks kind of rough after that many.

Not as rough as the spin clean I saw in use at a record store one time where the water was pitch black.

Ok, so I miscounted. The most I would do is a run of 15 and another run of 15 the next day, so a total of 30 in one tank.

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