I am now doing a dual clean. Unless visibly grubby HG clean cycle then wet and vacuum on Pro-ject. Takes no longer than the dry cycle on HG and can be starting another record in the HG at the same time.
Very unlucky, I’ve cleaned 500+ records now and still going strong, does leak a few drops of water when I take out the water container but not a problem.
It might not be the best ultrasonic but it’s one of the easiest and most convenient one to use and can sit happily in the same room as your turntable without taking much space.
I’m on my second from last filter, need to source an alternative as I don’t want to order these from China.
I’m near cleaning all my records, it will only be cleaning new records, so hopefully it will last a number of years but I’ll happily buy another one as it’s not going to break the bank.
Oddly im still on my first filter. Not seen a reason to change. For the first 500 or so records i did reuse the water a couple of times. But now just use it once.
I use softened tap water and a dash of dishwasher rince aid. Must have done about 3000 records now. All get the same treatment.
10 mins of ultrasonic, change water then another 10 mins plus dry. They not only look new, the sound new. Only issues i have are with albums that have mechanical damage. The dg cant fix them.
I use a blended approach. I don’t find US gets real muck off so I do a quick back and forth with my disco antistat and Lart du son then do a US with the humming guru. This gives me a good mechanical surface clean a possible deeper clean with the us and overcomes the drying issues of the disco.
Using this regime I now never get any gunk on the stylus and stylus cleaning shows nothing either. Records sound about as good as you’d expect considering many are at least. 40 years old.
I couldn’t justify degritter but the HG and this approach seems perfect
That’s the approach I’ve used on a few really greasy second hand buys, and some of my own historically mistreated records. Getting the bristles to work does seem to lift off greasy contaminants that the US finds a bit tricky. Obviously buying cleaner vinyl would help too X)
Do this on all records now, first time round. I’ll just use the guru for any subsequent cleaning.
I found using the disco the first play of the record nearly always produced a fair bit of stuff on the stylus.
After several days of discussing with Humminguru, as mine doesn’t work anymore, they will send me a new PCB with instructions to install it.
Is it difficult to install ? Do I need special tools?
Hopefully you will be able to tell us!
I wouldn’t expect it to be difficult if they expect you to do it yourself.
Good luck
Looking forward to the write up or even a Youtube video for future reference. Although hoping not to need it.
I found the YouTube video on how to change the PCB. I hope I will success. But honestly i would prefer to receive a new item. Maybe I should insist as it’s have only 10 months ?
I can see why they’d rather just send parts. But you are right. See if they can send two PCBs just in case.
@restock - you, my friend, are the undisputed king of vinyl cleaning. I am in awe of your patience and commitment to clean records!!
I opened the machine and took off the PCB. It’s a mess. As you see in the picture. I asked them to send me a new one and send them that one. As it’s on guarantee, it’s not normal that I have to bother with the repair.
Don’t you think?
Bad luck! I agree with you, they can’t expect their trusting customers to be handy customers. I would also insist on a replacement. Good luck with that.
I wouldn’t touch it.
Once I tried to repair by myself a Nitty Gritty RCM and made a disaster.
BTW, very disappointing customer service by HG.
M.
I am waiting the response now, as I just asked a replacement. If they refuse, I will agree with you.
It needs a recap!
And DR ?
Looking at the picture, it seems that all the wires are connected to the board via connectors (?) so should be a reasonably easy job to replace. Just mark each connector for position on the board so you don’t get them wrong.
Were you using a Powerline and bussman fuse when the HG failed?