33 - Vinyl Record Cleaning Kit- Record Vacuum Wand for Deep Cleaning (Attaches to Your Wet Dry Vacuum Hose, U.S. Standard 1.25" & 1.5")

This things amazing. I wanted another cleaner but it was 💰💰💰. After reading the reviews I “settled” on this. But come to find out I wasn’t settling at all! After 2 passes on a record that sounded pretty 🤢, it’s now sounding 😇. I’ve got a soft spot for people who solve problems with simplicity and ingenuity. This is a great example of that!

This is an excellent and downright amazing product. Once i saw it i knew i could make my own for less, but i ordered it anyhow to support the inventor and save time. All my various other methods of cleaning records over the years were incomplete without actually sucking the grunge out of the grooves, but i didnt want to spend hundreds, even thousands on a professional machine to clean my collection of mostly $1-10 valued albums.I spent many hours researching and trying many cleaning methods before buying this vacuum attachment. I ended up implementing this plus the VinylStyl Deep Groove which is comparable to the Spin Clean, but i feel better designed and carried out. You can also scrub your records with a soft brush and plain soap in the sink (the center labels are very water-resistant) but without sucking out that dirty water or fluid from whatever washing you give the record, theres still going to be stuff in the grooves. High water pressure might get most of it out but vacuuming seems superior to me becasue water pressure may just lodge things in there further. Since a record groove is approximately 1/10th the size of a human hair, i dont believe there is a brush around that would reach in, so vacuuming is your best bet. The difference can be HEARD as well as seen. I have records that came from houses of chain smokers, stored in dusty New Mexico garages, etc and i feel the Vinyl Vac will best take care of them all. I think i even prefer it to the $4000 ultrasonic automatic machine becasue im sort of a gearhead and i actually enjoy the manual operation of my setup, and cleaning and listening to records is theraputic :). Plus with running the vacuum every minute or so i have a reason to turn it up LOUD!The attachment comes with felt strips that are glued to both sides of the suction opening which prevent the hard plastic from riding on the record surface as you move/spin/turn it. Its designed for use right on your turntable but i actually got a spare broken turntable at goodwill to use strictly as a cleaning deck so everything can be done right on the kitchen island. I hold this cleaner steady, with the drilled "pivot" hole resting over the turntable spindle, and i lower the tube part parallel and it sucks itself right onto the record surface, then i spin the record on its platter slowly both directions. There are spare felt pads in the kit. Ive cleaned about 75 records and the felt still looks brand new. It also comes with vacuum reducers to insert inline after the hose, but i think its perfect without them using my 2.0hp small shop vac. It also comes with felt washers to protect the label as you spin the record, but this is the weakest part of the engineering. Within 1 second the felt washer was sucked straight through the spindle hole and i had to get it out of the vacuum. This is partly because the hole is almost 2x bigger than a standard record spindle for some reason. So i had to set a metal washer over to weigh down the felt washer. Luckily i had one lying around that was thin enough not to mess up the angle of the tube--it probably causes about a 3-degree angle. The shop vac power helps it still securely "vacuum" itself to the record even though the metal washer lifting the spindle area keeps the rest of the tube those few degrees from parallel. It actually lifts the vinyl of a 33. For 78s you may have to come up with something thinner. Not a big deal, but im not sure how the felt washer held up during product testing. Its a minor issue and im keeping my eyes open for something else lying around thats thinner than the washer. Since this thing is almost all funtion over looks, I'm thinking about just modifying a cottage cheese container lid or something....it needs to be about that thin. Depite that issue this is still one of the coolest inventions ive ever gotten my hands on and for $110 total i believe i have the best record cleaning system possible.

Vinyl Vac offers an economical solution for vinyl records cleaning, and if you just want to know if this thing works, I'll say yes, it works really really well and can blow your mind away once you know how to use it "correctly". But wait a minute, you may notice why I say using it "correctly"? If you are interested, read more below.First, let me briefly introduce my experience of vinyl records collecting. I am a thrift store record shopper, almost all of my records were purchased below $2, well, most of them are only 50c. Why? Because I think vinyl sucks, any vinyl worth more than $2 is ridiculous considering how much time and efforts you need to invest in to take care of these stuff. And Vinyl Vac is one of the investments that you need to make no matter the record you buy is 50c or $50. In a word, you need to clean the records anyway, sooner or later. And let me tell you, there is ABSOLUTELY no other options besides VACUUM can REALLY clean your records well enough. Please don't bother trying those cheaper Discwashers, or Audio Technica clean system, MOFI clean system, or the famous Spin Clean. All of these things won't work even closer like this tool here, period. As vinyl really sucks in lots of aspects, they need a sucker like this to serve it well. After using it, you will hear a clean and silent background with minimum (if there is any) clicks and pops from your record (if there are no deep scratches on it of course), which will make a huge difference from what you can achieve from the other non-vac tools and will completely refresh your knowledge about vinyl recording.So now you determine to collect vinyls so matter how bad they are, and want to try this vacuum method. So how can you do it? Vinyl Vac is a personal DIY product that anyone may do it by visiting stores like Home Depo, purchasing some drain pipes and cutting it. But for this price, I don't even bother to do this labor and measurement. It's a very straightforward piece of equip, and to use it for cleaning, you also need the following stuff in my method:(1) A wet/dry vacuum. Please note you need a vacuum machine that can do the wet part. I spent $20 for a small Stanley one in walmart and it works well, not only for vinyl, but also for my car. So it's a good investment anyway.(2) A good paintpad. I purchased one from walmart, a normal size one that just cover the 12" vinyl grooves end to end and very easy to use. But please remember to rinse and clean it to get rid of the loose fibers as many as possible before using it on your vinyls. This is very important!!! You don't want lots of the fibers got stuck into your vinyl grooves later. And remember to rinse it with DISTILL WATER before putting it on your records for vinyl cleaning.(3) Cleaning solution. You can buy some commercial ones, or make your own batch. My own batch is 1/4 91% isopropyl alcohol, 3/4 distill water and 1~2 drops of rinse agent. Then mix well and use paint brush to brush over the records 2-3 rotations before using vac. I know some audiophiles will jump out and shout "no alcohol". Well, I don't care and the vac will suck them right away. Plus, my records are mostly 50c, which I really don't care that much.(4) A turntable. You need a turntable to do the vac work. You can make one from lazy susan, or like me grab a broken turntable from craigslist for free and only use it for cleaning. Or use the only turntable you play records for cleaning (I don't recommend, especially the one you use is belt-driven as you need to take off the belt before vacuum every single time!!!)Now let's see how it works. The instruction for this Vinyl Vac is really not that good and in details. After a few days of trials, I finally got the great results for using it. I'll share my experience here so you may save lots of time from any errors or frustrations I had in the middle of learning process.1. Don't use any reducers they offered in the package if you use a small wet-dry vac like me. If you use a reducer, the suck power just isn't big enough to lift the residues and the cleaning solution will be dried and stuck in the vinyl groove. When you play it, you will soon get your stylus contaminated with lots of white whiskers. I was stuck in this issue for a long long time, until I realize no reducer should be used. So here is the deal you need to remember. If you use direct drive turntable for cleaning, forget about reducer, no issues at all. If you use belt drive turntable like I do, take off the belt before using vacuum. Then use Vinyl Vac without any reducer. If you forgot to take off the belt, most likely your belt will be stretched and off the platter. So do remember take it off beforehand. Again, please don't use any reducer or you will mess up with your stylus and have a huge headache for your cleaning.2. Put on the small white fluffy washer to protect your label. This white stuff is not well designed, and after a few use it will be worn out very badly. But it's useful to protect the label from lifting up during the vac, so do remember keep it and use it as the package has no backup for this thing if you lose it. I would prefer a solid rubber piece for this washer.3. You need to vac the record at least 3-4 rotations clockwise AND counterclockwise in order to make sure it is dried and all of the solution were vacuumed.If you use the method above, you will find even the record picked up at 50c will shine in glories like brand new ones except for the few scratches here and there. And when you drop the needle on it, you will hear a completely new world in your ear, blowing your mind and having your jaw dropped. I've used it to clean around 30 records so far, and the only vinyls that show slightly more noises were the ones with inner grooves damaged potentially by the former owner, which you can't see visually anyway. For 50c records digging, it's a hit and miss deal. With Vinyl Vac, you can get most of your 50c records sound like at least $5-$10 ones or even better. I can confidently buy a batch, clean them with vinyl vac and take them back to the same record store to make more money.Like I said, this tool can save your damn dirty records from graveyard or even the pitch dark hell. With this weapon, you no longer fear shopping the 50c or $1 bin records. I simply love it, and hope they can come up with a better label protector washer in the future version as the current one is really not that durable and good.I highly recommend this product. If you never tried any vacuum tools to clean your records and really want to invest in these suck vinyls, buy it right now! I repeat, just buy it unless you have too much money to burn for a VPI or similar (which does the same or even inferior job compared to this tool). You will thank me a thousand times later once you put your hands on it and achieve what I talked above.Good luck!~~~