This is a community blog after all, and I receive stories and experiences by readers on a frequent basis that should, I think, be shared. This is the oil that naturally leaches from within the vinyl itself and serves as the mythical ‘release agent’ to aid extraction from the record press.

Knosti Knosti

Somebody should manufacture a set of thicker brushes for the Spin Clean, as its brushes are easily removable. Tough because this record – Barclay James Harvest’s Time Honoured Ghosts (Polydor) – exhibited none of the usual dirty record characteristics of snap, crackle and pop. The new KNOSTI Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic is a completely new approach, according to the German company KNOSTI Phono-Zubehör-Vertriebs GmbH. Here, too, the record is immersed in a basin, but that’s it for the similarities to previous solutions.The most important and effective tool of the new KNOSTI Disco-Antistat Ultrasonic is ultrasound, which is used to loosen even stubborn dirt and then remove it with the goat hair brushes.

Knosti Disco-Antistat Record Cleaner Review | StereoNET

A motor (10-20€) 2) An ultrasonic device (you can get similar stuff for cleaning spectacles or jewelry for 50€ with casing !Das Label hat 100mm, da braucht es ein Gummi mit Innendurchmesser 100mm, hat es aber nicht, zumal es ja egal wäre ob dann 1mm der Auslaufrille nicht gereinigt wird. I hear some people cut down natural bristle decorator's brushes and someone else suggested a natural bristle nail brush. Ah, that must be the review where I read about the camel hair brushes that get right down into the groove! I'm not actually immersing the records in a bath as I won't touch the knosti fluid with somebody else's barge pole, but I have some Keith Monks fluids which I spray on as I rotate and then rinse off with distilled water in the same way.