Doh, I should have known!...UltraSound of course.
...But what' bout 'Distilled Water'? :b
Try some vinegar on it Bobby...
Doh, I should have known!...UltraSound of course.
...But what' bout 'Distilled Water'? :b
The DIYAudio forum that SoundProof linked to (and links from that) has a huge amount of detail.
Ultrasound does not clean by chemical action. It cleans using millions of bubbles exploding. Like throwing a depth charge at a submarine.
That thread also has a good "work in progress" feel. The first poster can't be said to be a mechanical planning genius, the contraption has a Rube Goldberg feel to it, but then the concept is developed, and the links to the efforts of others are interesting to follow. By the end, one has a thorough notion of what's possible, as well as varied experiences with both the efficacy and the potential risks of ultrasound cleaning.
Most people objecting are using the experiences from industrial ultrasound cleaning of tankers and pipes as a caveat against the gentle transducers used in vinyl cleaning, which makes no sense, of course.
I wouldn't hesitate to trust my most expensive vinyl to the Audio Desk unit.
See the last video about the machine
The US importer/distributor demos the machine in the last video. I asked for a sample and will report on it.
I've been using the VPI 16.5 almost since it came out, i think. My machine has got to be what- 22 years old? I'm pretty good with it, keep extra vacuum tubes on hand, clean the tube with a toothbrush [insert dumb joke] and use the Walker fluids and his applicator brushes. The VPI is an ear drum wrecker though and it is work to do more than a few records at a time. Also, I don't change vaccum brushes for each fluid bath, so theoretically, the enzyme gets sucked up, then, the cleaning fluid, then the ultra pure water, all by the same tube.
I love the build quality of the Oddysey. My one question relates to how you use these Keith Monks string-style machines with multiple fluids? I thought they had a fluid reservoir; do you just ignore that and do it manually?
The Autodesk sounds like the ticket. If my VPI would only die..... [thing is going to outlive me].![]()
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