Record cleaning - what's your method?

Gonna ask here because it's the best place I can think of: what do you do with non-generic sleeves if you replace them with MoFi inners or some other inner swap? Like if you have a printed sleeve or a cardboard inner that's got some kind of design to it, do you just keep it in the record or store it somewhere else? Seems like if I try to stuff a printed inner and MoFi into the same sleeve it's usually too tight.
 
ngower said:
Gonna ask here because it's the best place I can think of: what do you do with non-generic sleeves if you replace them with MoFi inners or some other inner swap? Like if you have a printed sleeve or a cardboard inner that's got some kind of design to it, do you just keep it in the record or store it somewhere else? Seems like if I try to stuff a printed inner and MoFi into the same sleeve it's usually too tight.
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If it's a gatefold I'll usually put the printed sleeve in the middle, otherwise if it's too tight I put it behind the jacket in the outer.
 
ngower said:
Gonna ask here because it's the best place I can think of: what do you do with non-generic sleeves if you replace them with MoFi inners or some other inner swap? Like if you have a printed sleeve or a cardboard inner that's got some kind of design to it, do you just keep it in the record or store it somewhere else? Seems like if I try to stuff a printed inner and MoFi into the same sleeve it's usually too tight.
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For generic paper or poly lined I bin them and replace them with the sleeve city ones. For printed inners I use the u type inners and slot them inside the printed inner sleeve.
 
ngower said:
Gonna ask here because it's the best place I can think of: what do you do with non-generic sleeves if you replace them with MoFi inners or some other inner swap? Like if you have a printed sleeve or a cardboard inner that's got some kind of design to it, do you just keep it in the record or store it somewhere else? Seems like if I try to stuff a printed inner and MoFi into the same sleeve it's usually too tight.
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I store the records in rice paper sleeves behind the jacket in the outer. Generic sleeves get tossed. Printed inners go back in the jacket.

I use gatefold sleeve for gatefolds (use vss modulars or whatever they’re called to make trifold sleeves) and store similarly.
 
Anyone ever get small flecks of paint off a disc? I bought a copy of Miles Davis' "Water Babies" the other day and when I got home the disc had all these flecks on the disc. Before I take it back to the shop figure this might be a good opportunity to see what the process would be to clean this record.
 
wenis said:
Anyone ever get small flecks of paint off a disc? I bought a copy of Miles Davis' "Water Babies" the other day and when I got home the disc had all these flecks on the disc. Before I take it back to the shop figure this might be a good opportunity to see what the process would be to clean this record.
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I wouldn't even try, but if you're desparate, Neil Antin, "pacvr", might be able to help. I see him on SH forums and Audiogon all the time. He's pretty much a guru when it comes to vinyl cleaning chemicals.

He's very approachable so pop on over and hit him up. No Himalayan mountain climbing involved.
 
kvetcha said:
Paint?? Are you sure it’s not just grains of other-color vinyl that got mixed in?
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it's got the raised texture of droplets on the disc and its just tiny little things too.
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feels like paint to me.
 
I've never had that but I did have some kind of adhesive/glue/something stuck in grooves that took like five passes through the RCM before it was playable. If it is indeed paint I imagine an enzyme cleaner would do a lot of the heavy lifting
 
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