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With any type of cleaning process, whether it’s for dishes, cars, or records, it’s always important to ask yourself where the dirt is going. The problem with my childhood blue cleaning fluid and brush method was that the dirt mixed with the fluid to create a kind of slurry, which I then pushed around the record with the brush until the fluid evaporated, leaving most of the dirt behind. A vacuum-type cleaning machine suspends the dirt in the fluid, then sucks the fluid away, taking the dissolved gunk with it and leaving the record dry and clean. This is the basic principle behind all vacuum-type record cleaners, whether they’re the string-and-nozzle type like the Keith Monks or the slot-and-tube type still made today by VPI, Nitty Gritty, and now a host of other companies.

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