Cleaning 78S??

[78 archivist]

I do this too. Except mine is a modern plastic equivalent brush - not wooden.

Have you seen the video though? It was just put up on YouTube.

Deleted scene. (caution - treatment maybe considered graphic)

I cringed in astonishment. Microscopic photography of the grooves will most definitely demonstrate degradation. And to think he owns records which individually are worth more than most of our entire sound systems.

But he did save a lot of the most important American music from being lost.

[smee4]

I didn't cringe. I scrub them like this. You can look at the non-grooved bits and not see any added scratches. Shellac is hard enough that a scrubbing brush, or shoe brush doesn't seem to harm them.

[78 archivist]

I'd be very suprised but I'll keep an open mind. I'll take a shoe brush to a common E+ disc and see for myself.