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Posted by Syntonic on Jul-20-2013 07:05:

Wood Glue Trick

Has anyone had any significant success with this vinyl cleaning technique? I've been skeptical about it but finally decided to try, got about two records going right now.

edit: watching all the different youtube videos right now...some results show improvement in fidelity.

Posted by Teezdalien on Jul-20-2013 07:44:

Care to elaborate on the wood glue trick?, haven't heard of that one! I've always just used vinyl cleaner I've bought from the record store and an anti-static cloth, don't play records all that often these days so I'm not cleaning them often either.

Posted by Syntonic on Jul-20-2013 08:23:

It's like putting a facemask on your vinyl. It supposedly has a deep clean quality that people swear and others dispute it. I'm slowly archiving my vinyl into .wavs and typically use Gruv Glide but that has jumped in price, like 40+ a can now.

Here's some movies demonstrating the technique.

It really all depends on the current state of the grooves. It won't fixed warped grooves or groove wear(white areas). Some examples seem to give back depth to the record.

Posted by Teezdalien on Jul-20-2013 20:30:

Ahh, thanks for that. Neat idea, not sure I'd be game to try it on my vinyls, more for reasons being that I'd probably destroy the record trying as opposed to the trick working or not.

Posted by Syntonic on Jul-21-2013 13:19:

After doing three records with this technique, I have to say I'm a believer. When I peeled off the glue I was pretty shocked to how clean it was; could see every groove like I first got it. I was pretty skeptical so I just tried it on some less sentimental vinyls and you can see all the crap that's encased with the glue.

edit: I went over the record with some isopropyl alcohol just to be safe

Posted by klappa on Jul-22-2013 04:05:

Nice! I will definitely test this.

Posted by Teezdalien on Jul-26-2013 21:04:

I'm contemplating doing this to my copy of Arkham Asylum/Ohmna, it's crackly as all hell.

Posted by Adam420 on Jul-26-2013 21:06:

Hmm I have some old records that could benefit from this but it looks pretty tedious to be honest, especially doing a whole collection.

Posted by Teezdalien on Jul-26-2013 21:37:

Cleaning is always tedious imo. One of those necessary evils.

Posted by Syntonic on Jul-26-2013 22:16:

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Originally posted by Teezdalien
Cleaning is always tedious imo. One of those necessary evils.

Exactly, did you try it on that Sasha record? Once you get the right amount of glue down it only took a few hours to dry.

@Adam420 - It's not like you have to pull up a chair and watch it dry. Try it once on a crackly record, we all have one.

Posted by Teezdalien on Jul-26-2013 22:35:

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Originally posted by Syntonic
Exactly, did you try it on that Sasha record? Once you get the right amount of glue down it only took a few hours to dry.

No, I haven't done the Sasha record just yet, I'm going to try this method on an old junk vinyl first to try and get the procedure down before I move onto my beloved tunes.