The Best Way to Clean Records


Your search is over - here's a guy who knows about vinyl cleaning. After all, he owns a record store, so he must know. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VSv-Sfdz2s
chayro
This cannot be as bad as the wood glue methods for cleaning vinyl.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuNc6ZP9Yrs
There is nothing dangerous to using wood glue. It's based on the same general chemical structure as the vinyl LP is. It just takes painfully long for it to dry to be peeled off easily. It's one way and IMO a rather expensive way to clean vinyl LP's as you will go through glue quickly by smearing it on your albums.

It does work though but it ca be a little messy and slow.
Creative:

How can you be sure you get all that glue residue out of the microstucture of the grooves? That is what bothers me about it. You are relying on the glue being a continuous structure that does not break apart when being pulled off the record.
Once completely dry the wood glue pulls off easily. It will leave no residue. If bits do break off and stick you just ball up some of the glue you have in your hand and dab it on top of any remaining bits. They will attract to each other. If you wish to be doubly sure you can always do a distilled water rinse and dry with a clean micro fibre cloth but in reality the glue will not have much adhesion to the base vinyl of the LP anyways.

I've done this a few times and have had good results, but it's too slow (drying) for me and as such not efficient enough. Today I use a Spin Clean cleaning setup that costs less that $80.00 typically and works well too.