Post by mintyjackhole on Dec 6, 2018 17:01:41 GMT
eflatminor needs the BESTEST water for cleaning his El Pees!
"Whatever the method used to clean records, from a manual cheap and cheerful process to multiple steps with fancy machines, brushes and fluids, I would think it always makes sense to use the purest water you can, particularly for the rinse step.
Obtaining certified 'Type I Grade' lab grade water (or better) is not only expensive, I've read it's illegal to send such a clearly dangerous substance (!) to a home address, even if there is a business in that home. Ludicrous I say...
So, I sought to locate an accessible and reliable source of the purest water I could find. Before sharing my experience, I would very much appreciate all your thoughts, even if you think I'm crazy for caring about such things!
Using a three gallon Polycarbonate PV7 container, I'm about to try for the first time De-Ionized/Reverse-Osmosis water from a machine at the local grocery store. The purity is described thus: "In the deionization process, water first passes through the pre-filtration and the reverse osmosis systems. It is then filtered through a special deionization medium, which further “polishes” the FreshPure® Waters RO water by removing the 1-2% of trace minerals that may remain."
It sells for 49 cents a gallon. Link to the company here: Fresh Pure Waters
In researching a source for pure water, I found an old write up on Audiogon that I found extremely detailed and very helpful: Finding Pure Water for Record Cleaning - very long | Audiogon Discussion Forum
Based on this fellow's overview, the DI water from Fresh Pure should be equivalent to Type I water. In case you don't want to read the entire write up (it's quite long), here's an excerpt: "DI water (from ion-exchange resins or RO filtration) is far less common commercially than distilled water. Fortunately, many specialty-food stores are starting to have in-house purification systems to produce excellent DI and RO water at very low cost...This de-ionized water meets or exceeds Type-I grade. It is an outstanding product for record cleaning and very affordable..."
So, that's what I ended up with. I'll be trying it this weekend with my VPI Cyclone and in my Klaudio ultrasonic machine.
Lastly, I have no ability to test water purity, but I'm wondering how my new source would compare to AIVS's lab water, which is much, much more expensive.
Discuss..."
Here's the thread: forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/how-pure-is-your-water-scoring-the-right-h2o-for-record-cleaning.792038/
"Whatever the method used to clean records, from a manual cheap and cheerful process to multiple steps with fancy machines, brushes and fluids, I would think it always makes sense to use the purest water you can, particularly for the rinse step.
Obtaining certified 'Type I Grade' lab grade water (or better) is not only expensive, I've read it's illegal to send such a clearly dangerous substance (!) to a home address, even if there is a business in that home. Ludicrous I say...
So, I sought to locate an accessible and reliable source of the purest water I could find. Before sharing my experience, I would very much appreciate all your thoughts, even if you think I'm crazy for caring about such things!
Using a three gallon Polycarbonate PV7 container, I'm about to try for the first time De-Ionized/Reverse-Osmosis water from a machine at the local grocery store. The purity is described thus: "In the deionization process, water first passes through the pre-filtration and the reverse osmosis systems. It is then filtered through a special deionization medium, which further “polishes” the FreshPure® Waters RO water by removing the 1-2% of trace minerals that may remain."
It sells for 49 cents a gallon. Link to the company here: Fresh Pure Waters
In researching a source for pure water, I found an old write up on Audiogon that I found extremely detailed and very helpful: Finding Pure Water for Record Cleaning - very long | Audiogon Discussion Forum
Based on this fellow's overview, the DI water from Fresh Pure should be equivalent to Type I water. In case you don't want to read the entire write up (it's quite long), here's an excerpt: "DI water (from ion-exchange resins or RO filtration) is far less common commercially than distilled water. Fortunately, many specialty-food stores are starting to have in-house purification systems to produce excellent DI and RO water at very low cost...This de-ionized water meets or exceeds Type-I grade. It is an outstanding product for record cleaning and very affordable..."
So, that's what I ended up with. I'll be trying it this weekend with my VPI Cyclone and in my Klaudio ultrasonic machine.
Lastly, I have no ability to test water purity, but I'm wondering how my new source would compare to AIVS's lab water, which is much, much more expensive.
Discuss..."
Here's the thread: forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/how-pure-is-your-water-scoring-the-right-h2o-for-record-cleaning.792038/