Cleaning Vinyl With Wood Glue

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Cleaning vinyl with wood glue.

Vinyl handbook book launch event friday 25th september 8 30pm. Sweep or vacuum it every evening and wipe up spills right away. This video has rea. This is the best record cleaning method i have found without investing in a machine.

Make sure to leave clean edges. Once there it can destroy the glue bond that holds. It made for quite an improvement and i ve read that multiple cleanings continue to clean up the snaps crackl. Amazing results very safe.

It s like giving your record a spa wax. The best way to clean your lp s with wood glue. Many avid record collectors swear by this technique for vinyl cleaning. However at the end of the day nothing works as well as using wood glue.

Theoretically the wood glue and the material records are made of are so chemically similar that the glue can t bind to the record. I wanted to try cleaning an lp with wood glue. I destroyed two of my favorite records. Make sure you ve covered the whole surface no dry spots and leave the record sitting until the wood glue becomes transparent and hard to the touch i recommend waiting 24 hours just to be sure.

This will make removing the wood glue much easier later on. Instead learn how to clean vinyl floors using the mildest possible method. Over the years vinyl cleaning has been made easier with the development of cleaning products made specifically for vinyls and cleaning machines that can do it for you. Never again will i use wood glue or any other glue for that matter to clean my records.

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