VEVORUltrasonic Vinyl Record Cleaner 6L 40kHz Vinyl Ultrasonic Cleaning Machine Knob Control Record Ultrasonic Cleaner 4 Records Vinyl Sonic Cleaner Stainless Steel Tank w/Mechanical Heater & Timer

My husband is an avid vinyl collector. He has 1,000's in his personal collection. We also buy and resell so we clean a bunch of albums constantly. This machine works great. He can turn it on and while they're cleaning go do something else. The sound quality of the albums changed drastically. We've also cleaned jewelry and was amazed at how clean it all came. Plus for the price you really couldn't go wrong. It is a little bit loud but that just means you turn your music up louder 😁

I bought this with the primary goal of using it for (vinyl) record cleaning.Plusses!* Effective and economical ultrasonic cleaning* Adjustable heat* MVP spacers for records* Simultaneously clean up to 4 recordsMinuses ):* Vinyl spacers could be better* Motor mounting is for cave man* Axle mounting could be betterAlso Know* Temp gauge is inaccurate (meh)* Noisy!!! (meh)* BYOBThis unit is dead simple to use. Just be aware the printed thermostat calibration could be pretty far off (mine reads really low). Ultrasound cycle is limited to 30 minutes max on a dial timer. No worries there.Using this for vinyl? It comes with 5 plastic discs, a spacer cylinder, and a nut that all stack onto an axle that spins around in the water bath (slowly) thank to the driver motor/axle assembly that hangs on one side of the unit.The motor thang is nice and is mounted in aluminum cast. There is no consideration for mounting this aluminum body to the edge of the bath itself, so I used a bit of packing material to pad the interface.An axle attaches to the motor shaft with a collar and set screw--the screw is cheap and will strip if you put pressure on it. And it will work loose at some point anyway because the thread pitch is from kindergarten. This could be a lot better. The axle is a nicely machined part. Why forsake a decent set screw?The PTFE spacers are ok. They could be better engineered for this purpose though. I think the material is fine. The radius falls slightly short of covering some labels -- these spacers are supposed to protect the labels. It would also be better if they had a shallow bore so that bulgy labels would be enveloped instead of causing a spacer to simply gap out.I don't mind the inaccurate temp dial. It's not that far off, and it doesn't detract from my ability to use it. For vinyl, you only need 1/5th of the scale anyway.It is noisy and horrible sounding and terrible for ears. All of those. I wear ear plugs around it, and I put it in the basement. That works for me.For vinyl cleaning, or anything else for that matter, you're on your own as far as chemicals and process. Stay safe folks!

This is a great item for the price. It does exactly what I need it to, but I don't think I needed the heating coil.Make sure you add enough water each time you use it (2/3+ tank minimum). It is loud because it works.I use plain water from the tap with a tiny bit of pure (no dye) dish soap for like 10-12 minutes + on old records.Then I add filtered (reverse osmosis or membrane filter) or distilled water for the rinse. Then air dry.I think that's all you need.The dry rack is set up as follows: set up the two flat pieces parallel from each other and parallel to the ground. Then attach 2 of the sticks to the top of each piece while both are still resting on a table.Now attach the second 2 sticks but closer together and on the lower slots.Finally, make the "teeth" of the sticks on the top horizontal, and on the bottom, vertical.The purpose of the rack is to make a stand for the 12" records so they are secure and don't fall over when they dry.It took me a while to figure out how to set it up.Finally, before you turn on the motor to spin the records when they are in the tank, make sure that the records in the bath have room on each side of the tank so that they can spin.Otherwise they won't spin and I wonder if it will burn out the motorCheers

Okay, so if you're buying this to clean vinyl, be aware -- this is the budget option. It's not purpose built for cleaning vinyl-- in fact, it seems some enterprising industrial ultrasonic cleaner manufacturer realized that, with a completely separate device strapped onto the side of it, it COULD clean vinyl, and there you go. You have yourself a vinyl cleaner. It sounds ridiculous. Incidentally, don't go near it wearing bluetooth headphones. Sounds like nothing you've ever heard.But, it's the real deal when it comes to ultrasonic cleaning. It's extremely self explanatory to set up, but if you use the plastic cheapo vinyl separators / "label protectors" (never specified as such, but that's what most other reviews refer to them as), you're gonna have an inefficient mess on your hands. If you want to clean 3x as much wax at a time AND actually protect the labels, here's what you do.(This is the part where I tell you to go buy a HumminGuru if you're not willing to get a lil DIY with it -- crafty folk, read on)Get yourself a few sheets of 12 x 12 Inch,1/16 Inch Thickness Silicon rubber. They're about 11 bucks for 2 sheets.Use the stinky, cheapo separators as a guide, and using an X-acto knife or similar, cut circles of silicon rubber, then, again using the stock separator to guide you, drill a hole through the rubber circle you just made. Do that a bunch of times (helps if you stack them so you can knock out 2 or 3 at once), and you have a high quality, pliable, borderline adhesive label protector that's also thinner than the other separators, meaning you can fit about 14 records as opposed to 5.My recipe (dialed in over several washes) is as much water as you need to meet the bottom of the label, some amount of surfactant (should be below in the 'often purchased together' section) and some simple green.Thing works incredibly well.