Tweaks such as demagnetizers ionizers for lp's

I purchased the hand held magnet that Dan recommended. I am very pleased with it. I have left it on for several hours and it did not even get warm to the touch. It looks like they fixed the problem that Doug warned us about.

Doug also said, "The idea is to start with the device (powered up) very close to the object. Circle it s-l-o-w-l-y around the object while s-l-o-w-l-y increasing the distance."

Doug, I am hopeful you could expand on this. Would "very close" mean 1/2"? Would "circle slowly" mean 1 revolution per second? Would "increasing the distance" mean 1" per second, the whole process taking 5 seconds?

I leave the record in its Mo-Fi sleeve so that when starting very close I will not accidentally scratch the record.

Great tweek. Thanks to everyone.

George, those are great questions and I look forward to reading how Doug and Dan use their devices. I have a bulk tape eraser which I use to demagnetize LPs.

After the record goes through my cleaning procedure, I put it in a new inner sleeve and then on a flat surface. I then turn on the tape eraser and start rotating it very slowly clockwise starting at the label and moving outward keeping the distance constant - about 1/8th of an inch from the record surface.

I spend about a minute and three revolutions from label to outer edge and then flip the record over and do the other side.

Do you need to demag both the sides ?
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Pradeep

I don't really know if one needs to do both sides. This is just how I've done it without really experimenting more with technique. I'm curious about how others do it.

George, glad to hear yours doesn't overheat. Paul even replaced our on/off switch and it still does, probably a short circuit in the coils... cheap POS!

"Close" means as close as you safely can. A magnetic field obeys the rule of inverse squares, so the closer you get the stronger the effect. I let the backs of my fingers brush the object being treated, so barely a cm away to start. Keeping the LP in a sleeve to prevent scratching is wise.

Moving "slowly" for us means:
- circling above the object at ~4-5 seconds per revolution, and
- receding from the object so that it takes ~15 seconds to get from ~1cm to ~1m.

Paul just mentioned another trick: start with the POS flat (parallel to the object) but gradually/steadily tilt it as you circle and recede, such that by the time you're ~1m away it's "aimed" at ~90 degrees to the object. This is another way to weaken the magnetic field relative to the object, so tilt it SLOWLY. Chanting your mantra is optional. ;)

Pradeep & Peter, we do both sides though I'm not sure why. My guess is that it's less a matter of "sides" than that repeating the procedure doubles the odds of affecting any given molecule. I haven't compared results vs. doing just one side but I don't care since it costs me no useful time. I generally multi-task, demagging one LP while the Loricraft is vacuuming another. Demagging doesn't steal many useable minutes from my otherwise thrilling life.

We demag discs just before we wet clean, on the untested hypothesis that reducing magnetic attractions might aid the cleaning process. That's speculative but if we must demag sometime, why not then?