Record-playing Rituals?

I wash my records with a VPI record-cleaning machine before playing them. I dust it off with compressed air.
Then, I wait about 2 minute after (to make sure is completely Dry) and then a second dust off with compressed air.

I am curious, where or how can I make/get mixture of trifluortrichlorethane and molybdensulphate? Also, how does it make the record sound better as Detlof suggest?

Miguel

Interesting!
Just have to insert my method:
I am cheap. No cleaning machine for me, when manual labor is available.
ALL of my LPs are used. Some are VERY dirty.
I start with a Sears vacuum and a soft bristle attachment that I have treated with AQ CD polish silicon liquid(I use it on all sorts of stuff)
I vaccum both sides of the LP.
Then I place the LP on a dead TT (I mean no motor, no arm GoodWill special for $2) I use a mix of distilled water and dish soap and a toothbrush. I spin the LP and apply a layer of fluid and run the toothbrush in the grooves with the bristles angled INTO the grooves and can feel the hits of clogged dirt as I spin the LP by hand. I run it around clock wise, and anti, until no more tiny little pulls on the handle of the brush indicate the dirt is loosened.
I proceed to the sink and rinse the side carefully. (I live where water is plentiful) back to the TT, blot dry the side, and use a second fluid of distilled water and 20% alcohol and wet the LP and use the brush a second time around the grooves. Especially around the leadin grooves, which are universally the dirtiest. I blot dry the LP and vacuum dry it rapidly with the vacuum and designated brush attachment. Then I use a rag impregnated with silicon and buff the LP side... then revacuum. The other side gets the same treatment and then I ALWAYS PLAY IT. I believe some of the difficulties of residual scratchiness of sound comes from setting aside LPs and not playing them after cleaning. Yes a few molecules of water and alcohol are present, but I think these help clear out the tiny bits of residue.
(this is based on teenage efforts to sink wash LPs and put them away, to find they were worse and terribly marked from the palstic liners) Playing them, this never happens.
The silicon impregnated cloth is an experimentfrom a series of posts on audioasylum. The cloth is an old one I have used with AQ CD treatment and it is very effective in imparting an extremely thin coating of silicon on anything. I use it on the LP covers too. If it gets dusty, I vacuum it off.
On LPs it gives back that great shine. (unscupulous sellers could do this and the LPs would have that shine so prized, but sunlight tells the true tale)
My LPs play with a silent background.
Some have posted with a shudder at the toothbrush, but it is a key part of actually getting the LPs clean.
I am impressed with the methods used by some, and the special fluids used.
I am too cheap to splurg on any special fluids, but respect the opinion of those who use them to good effect.

I'm surprised there's no mention of the Zerostat anti-static gun. I use it first, and then use a carbon fiber brush. Once the dust is gathered into a straight line on the record, I vacuum it up.

Then I wet scrub using home made brew, and then vacuum again. I apply LAST extremely sparingly, spreading just two drops across the LAST brush. Records which have had LAST applied to them get a semi-transparent, self-adhesive colored dot placed on their label ... so I don't apply LAST to them again.

The record cleaning machine I use is one of my own design. I found VPIs and NGs to have inadequate suction. The vacuum on my machine has a 1 horse motor. Sorbothane on the turntable keeps the vinyl "stuck" on the platter -- otherwise the suction would lift the record up. I use an old broacast transcription turntable for rotating the record ... this 'table is built like a tank. All of this is built into a printer stand, and it looks really sharp! John Grado uses one of my record cleaning machines.

Thanks for the great thread and all the wonderful posts, Both the info and the humor are great. But, doesn't anyone else click their heels 3 times and say "There's nothing like vinyl ... there's nothing like vinyl?"

I will admit to clicking my heels and always use the Zerostat between the clicks to negate static buildup from my carpeted floor after having "shot" the LP.

I tried clicking my heels together but I fell over and scratched the record. Say, where can I get a ruby-colored ZeroStat? This orangey-red thing works great but it is sooo ugly.