Deep Cleaning Records With Steam?

Only downside to buying mail order water is the shipping cost...

Makes that $6.95 bottle suddenly jump to about $15 if one orders a few bottles to amortize the shipping.

I'm wondering how much benefit one gains from the use of ultra-pure water vs. using the Peak battery water mentioned earlier in this thread. Every time I use my steamer with the Peak water, there is a small amount of residue which comes out of the water reservoir upon draining immediately after use. If I can see residue after such a short period of contact, how much advantage is to be had using increasingly purer water? Are others noticing this rapid a contamination of their water?

Photon46 i came to that same thought after seeing the left over water in my steamer after a cleaning session. It was obvious that the water in your steamer gets residue from the interior of the unit. I was using Nerl lab grade water for my whole routine of steam cleaning. Now i use distilled water in the steamer and use Nerl water for two manual rinses. I also am saving cash not using the expensive lab water in the steamer. With no loss of sound that i can hear from eather way of steaming. I believe the double rinse with ultra pure water makes a marked improvement in the sound of a LP.

Tvad like i just mentioned above another pure water source is NERL Ultra Pure Reagent Grade Water at http://www.nerl.com/product/water.aspx?id=34.

All with the help of Crem and this thread i have discovered that the use of steam in your record cleaning method is priceless for superior LP playback and sound. I made this video with the help of my wife to show just how easy it is to get your LPs clean so you can get the very best in sound and playback. You dont need a record cleaning machine but it makes it easier for me. Thanks again Crem for starting this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6OjtKUZ048

Stltrains, you must have the cleanest records on Audiogon.