Wood Glue = Pure Magic

Hello there, ladies and gentleman!
I haven't posted anything for a very long time, because I have been pretty busy.
To make up for lost time, I'm going to show you today one of the coolest restoration processes I have ever used: Cleaning vinyl records with wood glue.

Since my last post, which was over two months ago, I have gotten myself a very nice turntable, a Sherwood PD-701B, which uses an Audio Technica AT91 cartridge. It sounds absolutely FANTASTIC, I sincerely didn't know that vinyl could sound this good. It certainly beats digital, but not reel to reel, in my opinion.

Ok, so back to our topic:

Wood glue.

You may be wondering how on earth could wood glue clean a record.

Well, it's pretty simple: By pouring the glue onto the spinning disc, you can fill it's entire surface (and spread it out evenly using a card or something). Then, after 24 hours, when it solidifies, it turns transparent and can be peeled off the disc, taking any dirt that was stuck deeply in the groove away.

Here is a video on youtube showing how to do this process:

It's my fourth time using this method, and every single time I have had fabulous results. My I want to break free single had a terrible skip halfway through the record, which looked like a scratch, but was completely fixed by the glue.

There were two discs that showed a night and day difference after going through this process: The Alone Again (Naturally)/Matrimony single by Gilbert O' Sullivan and Abbey Road, by the Beatles.

This is a before and after comparison of Matrimony and Come together: (Ignore the distorted sound, my computer doesn't capture external sound properly, just focus on the pops and crackles)(also, loud volume warning)
Matrimony
Come Together

Wow. Just wow. Out of all the methods I ever used to clean something, this one I would truly call magic.

Hope you learned something useful today, and, as always,
Thanks for reading🦄😎

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