Unboxing & review of the one, the only, Spin-Clean Mk2 Record Cleaning system! Grab yours here; amzn.to/2FnxuXu Thank you for watching and subscribing!
I love my Spin Clean, I actually have two of them. On the first one the brushes did not touch each other. I emailed some pics to them showing them what was wrong. The guy called me back the next day and said he showed my pictures in a meeting and that it was unacceptable for brushes not to touch. He went ahead and sent me a whole new Spin Clean in case the first was warped. When it came in I put the brushes from the first one in and they still did not touch. So I swapped them out with the brushes that came with the second and I was ready to clean. It turns out the first brushes were defective. Excellent customer service and I ended up with a new Spin Clean!
I bought mine in January and i love it it does a great job cleaning the records and it's worth my money i made a good investment in buying the spin clean washer.
I realize that I’m opening myself up to attack on this, but my experience needs to be shared, for fairness reasons alone. This is a good review of this product. But no one has convinced me that it is considerably better, and worth $80, than cleaning your records with soap and water. If done correctly (rinsing your records thoroughly, as one example), I have found in my experience that the soap and water method gets my records clean just fine. I won’t go into the details of how to clean using this method, since there are RU-vid videos that explain the process. There are those who would cry, “what about the labels???” You can get label protectors for about $25-30. You can even use dent pullers (and there’s a video on that) as well for far less. In any case, that, plus the few pennies of dish soap that it costs, is far less than the $80 for a Spin Clean. I share this because, for one reason, I know that there are people who can’t afford the $80 for a Spin Clean. And there are also those who feel that you shouldn’t have to spend that much to clean your records (and that includes people who would rather spend that money on records). I said I would be attacked, because Spin Clean is the holy grail of record cleaning. It’s anathema to many to even suggest that SC can be replaced by anything-especially soap and water. So I will say that, if you want and can afford a SC, go ahead and get one. But realize that there are other methods out there that you can use, especially if you’re on a budget.
Took your advice and got one and I'm very happy with the results. It improves not only the 60 year old thriftstore finds but the new records which are much dirtier than I realized.
I bought one a couple of years ago and only used it once so far. I have a bunch of new thrift store records so I'm due to bring it out again. I recommend using a log book to keep track of what you've cleaned and when.
OH MY GOD! THE SONG IN THE INTRO WAS MY FIRST EVER 78! WHEN EYES OF BLUE ARE FOOLING YOU BY SAM LANINS BROTHER, HOWARD LANIN! whenever I hear this song, I get so incredibly sad since it's my first and my favorite 78 I own yet it probably won't survive much longer since it has 2 cracks and a piece is slowly cracking off.
I've had a Spin Clean for about 7 years now. I have cleaned literally thousands of albums. I have gone through multiple sets of brushes. NO complaints about it whatsoever, EXCEPT, it is impossible to clean out all the deposited dirt left in the crevasse at the bottom. It always looks dirty to me. I have let it soak in soapy water overnight, ran it through the dishwasher, but the bottom still holds on to the dirt. My fat fingers can only reach so far into the many corners...
A brush with a long handle(for example, a brush meant for cleaning bottles)should solve the problem. Or use a piece of soft cloth around a thin object.
I just bought a Spin Clean yesterday. If I see that I have the same issue with build-up, I will use my pressure cleaner and hit it with the low pressure nozzle from a distance and see what happens.
I'm finding it much harder to rotate the records than shown here. The system lifts completely off the table. I even snapped a couple in half. I bought it 3 months ago and have cleaned close to 100 records so should be broken in by now i think
