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Happy New Year ...& due to further deep research... the info here below has now been amended...
1). Abrasive Licks > Cat's tongues are abrasive... in cynical trials, we recently found that catnip dust works really well on really dirty ol' 45's on tests... 8 out of 10 cats etc... and so on...[see pic]
2). Neanderthal Clunks > Old stoneage handtools are of course a bit brutal, but they are good clean fun as well for chippin' off big chunks of burrito crud & calcified beer rings... [see pic]
3). Groove Slides... Snails are real headbangers and really wig out to quality 45's on the dancefloor... they also do a real good job at chewing crud off the surface of old 45's [see demonstration of snail 45rpm cleaning process in pic below ~ no snails were hurt in this process...] -
We are also engaged in training local winkles, whelks and limpits [nice work if you can get it...] with our patent organic anchovy paste record cleaning gloop. We do this by spreading it onto piles of old 50's / 60's 45's which are then screwed onto the wooden breakwaters at low tide... Obviously the labels get all wet and chewed up as well... but hey... you can't have everything, and who spins the labels anyway >>>---> (der?)
4). It's Our Bag... In terms of using glue outside of it's appropriate low-level social and punk rock party applications... we have also found that if a record is properly wrecked up, you can still get a good sound out of it by spreading wood glue all over it - and then sticking another non-wrecked record on top > Hey presto !!! ...yup - it'll play just fine... We recently manageried to get our copy 'Toes on the Nose' by Eddie and the Showmen to play Evergreen by Barbra Streisand by using this process and the results were excellent !!!
But on a thoroughly boring note... [although v. expensive & somewhat time consuming to use] ...We still think that the Loricraft PRC4 MK II is a dead kool machine if used with L'Art du Son fluid and de-mineralised water - This machine still works really well for us right now right across the board...
In audiophile terms we have had 45's that have been previously cleaned on other machines and/or with other methods etc... and yet have still seriously improved the dynamic playback* by re-cleaning them on our Loricraft [ *...we are fussy and use a variety of decks from tecnics SL10 MK2's with eliptical needles / also Thorens etc with shure supertrack needles, BBC prototype studio monitors, stupid amps etc... ]
Yet still for us at least ...the Loricraft has proved to be the best so far for us for cleaning all sorts of vinyl across the board ...e.g. from acetates & old 78's, styrene & vinyl 45's... right up to crystal clarity on U.S. 45rpm radio spots, jazz, classical & spoken word LP's... the advantage of this machine so far as we can work out is that it vacuums each groove as opposed to some form of nya ha ha ha ha ha ....wipe-out ... style suction pad trawling across the entire platter like a finger of fudge... hey ho
