Though the Link is slightly off topic, really about Port Bungs, as an example of a method for making your own Port Bungs, I posted a picture of a pre-play record cleaning brush that I made -
Sort of the Story of my life. I'm always trying to make something out of something else. This is a short section of PVC Pipe wrapped in Poly Batting, then covered with low-cost stretch velvet, and the End Caps are simply smaller PVC Caps.
The final product is about 3.5" long and about 2.25" in diameter (88.9mm x 57mm). Probably the most expensive bit was the Stretch Velvet Fabric, which was actually a remnant on sale.
Just for reference, here is the thread with a few more details -
the foam bungs are missing. ive emailed the manufacturer last month but no response. is there any company i can source bungs from? failing that, I'm thinking of makiy my own but im not sure where i can buy the material from and how to cut it into a perfect cylinder shape to exactly fit the...
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However, it is not the brush that does it. I have a small spray bottle with Distilled Water that I spritz on the brush before cleaning the record. Just a very fine mist, and that is enough to make any dust cling to the brush. Seems to work well. The fine mist of water seems to dry pretty much instantly, so with distilled water, no residue, and in seconds the record is dry and ready to play.
At to carbon fiber brushed. The advantage is the Carbon Fiber is conductive. The best carbon fiber brushes have Metal on the handle. That metal allows static charge to bleed from the record, through the brush, and into your body where it dissipates.
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Note the gold colored sections on the side of the Brush handle are metal.
So, part of the purpose of the Carbon Fiber is to draw static off the record.
I suspect, spraying a fine mist of distilled water or a very diluted record cleaning product, would help dust cling to the brush.
I have seem record cleaning tools (brush and similar) that come with a small bottle of liquid. You can either place a few drops of the liquid on the cleaning device or on the record. Though that seem like a lot of liquid, and placing it directly on the record seem like it would turn any dust into mud that would build up in the grooves.
So, for myself, I'll stick to a very find mist just enough to make the dust cling to my velvet record cleaner.
Oddly, I happen to find an old bottle of
Radio Shack Record Cleaner that is literally DECADES old. I put a few drops of this into my distilled water, though I'm not sure how much value it adds.
Just a bit of rambling for what it is worth.
Steve/bluewizard