New ultrasonic vinyl cleaner in the works: Humminguru

So, today I will pick up som Ilfotol. Not sure whether I will pre-heat the water, though, especially if my wife is around. She's already finding all this cleaning stuff to be VERY strange...

Anyway: will first do distilled water, with some drops of ilfotol. Excited to test it!
 
LeeVing said:
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A few notes:

The Degritter has a 1.4L tank, and the Harbor Freight is 2.5L. That's 4x and 7x the capacity of the Humminguru. Two transducers at a lower wattage for this amount of water doesn't seem like a problem to me.

I'm also convinced his dust issues are the result of household dust + the drying cycle. In almost all those cases the dust appears to be stuck to the surface by static rather than buried in the groove. The Degritter would not have this issue as it actively filters the water during the cleaning cycle, while the Humminguru does not. So some debris may be left on the surface, post-clean, but can be easily brushed off before playing because it's no longer bonded to the record. What you care about is the stuff deep in the grooves, and HG seems to do an admirable job there.

The video in general seems like a lot of simple tests that ignore a lot of context. He asks why they'd bother with the coarse filter at the bottom of the tank; it's because the Humminguru uses a pump to drain the water, and you don't want large debris getting stuck in there.

note: if anyone who's got more experience with ultrasonic cleaning wants to tell me why I'm wrong, I'm listening. But I'm not sure I put too much stock in this video.
 
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I know this has probably been answered but for the sake of not searching...approx how many records are yall getting cleaned w, say, a gallon of distilled water? How much are you reading the water (I may put some droplets of tergikkeen in there so I don't know if that matters for reusability). What's you basic technique(s), I guess.
 
Perforated Baby Salve said:
I know this has probably been answered but for the sake of not searching...approx how many records are yall getting cleaned w, say, a gallon of distilled water? How much are you reading the water (I may put some droplets of tergikkeen in there so I don't know if that matters for reusability). What's you basic technique(s), I guess.
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I've been switching out the water based on time rather than number of LPs, because I haven't been cleaning enough records at a go for the water to get noticeably dirty. So usually I'll fill the tank once each cleaning day.

You should get around 10 fills per gallon.
 
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Perforated Baby Salve said:
TBF the person at the top who said that gave their own positive XP w the HG. Perhaps they meant review style?
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It's a polished video, but I take some exception to his testing methodology + the base assumption a lot of people in there are making that if it can't match the Degritter for 10% the price, then it's a ripoff.
 
I was taking that review as a huge advertisement for the HG. In essence, this is a non beliver who does not want to believe and the machine still came out really good even with his cynical, skeptic's slant.
 
debianlinux said:
I was taking that review as a huge advertisement for the HG. In essence, this is a non beliver who does not want to believe and the machine still came out really good even with his cynical, skeptic's slant.
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For me it's the lack of critical thought despite the fact that he's projecting authority. There's a lot of 'I did a test and here are the results' but no sense of curiosity as to why he might be seeing those results.
 
I also don't get that review. I find that there was some dust on the record after drying, but then my house is also very dusty because of refurbishment work at the moment. I also found some sonic improvements on several records. Okay, so very bad pressings with lots of surface noise did not get much better in that department with just distilled water. Still, I could hear a better soundstage and more details. Then my thinking is that this is a pressing where the noise is simply coming from the lacquer? I'm not discounting this yet at all. There's also a convenience factor. If one is an "archivist" with very expensive equipment, then a Degritter probably makes sense. But for us mere mortals with three-digit or low-four digit number of records and quite modest equipment, the HG is likely a good choice.
 
espendo said:
I also don't get that review. I find that there was some dust on the record after drying, but then my house is also very dusty because of refurbishment work at the moment. I also found some sonic improvements on several records. Okay, so very bad pressings with lots of surface noise did not get much better in that department with just distilled water. Still, I could hear a better soundstage and more details. Then my thinking is that this is a pressing where the noise is simply coming from the lacquer? I'm not discounting this yet at all. There's also a convenience factor. If one is an "archivist" with very expensive equipment, then a Degritter probably makes sense. But for us mere mortals with three-digit or low-four digit number of records and quite modest equipment, the HG is likely a good choice.
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the amount of dust on his records after the clean really made me think that the guy's house is REALLY dusty. as @kvetcha said, the dust seems to be surface level and would be easy to remove. the air drying does seem to make records a little staticky. but it hasn't been an issue for me. after using the HG i have no interest in needing to buy a degritter or some more expensive ultrasonic cleaner.
 
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