That video sounds pretty convincing to me; the sound is much less scratchy.
And for me that's all what counts; I'm buying myself some wood glue. :b
And Myles, you can say whatever ...
I wouldn't call it stupid. Adventurous? yes. Maybe someone with chemistry knowledge would chime in and tell us about the potential for harm to the vinyll .. We simply don't know. I don't think it is the same thing as a Record Cleaning Fluid .. RCF remains liquid with the impurities kept in the liquid by surface tension and if it evaporates, there remains solid residues that needs to be sucked out .. In this case I have a glue .., to which everything adheres, then when cured, seems to come out rather neatly
Being a skeptic, I first used a record that had absolutely no sentimental value - to test the principle. I waited until the glue had gone completely translucent, and then pulled it off. The record played without noise from dust and residue in the grooves.
I then got a Miles Davis Porgy & Bess original from a garage sale that sounded as if it had entire colonies of dust and fungus in the grooves. I had only tried to play it once, and gave it up mid-first groove because it was so filled with whatever it was that induced the noise.
Here are the two "pull-offs" from that cleaning session. The record afterwards played without noise, and was shiny.
The chemistry is pretty obvious, comparable to oil and water analogies - the repellent force is due to matching polarities, and there's no way that the glue will adhere more strongly to the vinyl than to "other glue." I'm pretty certain one could have played these ... though with noise transferred from the now clean vinyl.
We've already had a few record Rx that negatively affected the LP such as Soundguard.
What glue did you use? How long did it take to dry? Do you regularly treat records this way?
This is the best album cleaning method so far; thanx Steve for sharing! :b
And like Bill just said above; it is perfect for your less than perfect vinyls.
It is amazing what simple and logical things of life can do to improve the Sound! :b
And Myles, again, you can say whatever ...
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