Cleaning the turntable felt
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Re: Cleaning the turntable felt
By the way... "patina" on felt is actually 100+ years of grease, dust, cigarette smoke, mouse droppings and assorted misc. grime... So, in my opinion a clean felt is a good felt...
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"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
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Re: Cleaning the turntable felt
Plus it comes into direct contact with your record grooves...Curt A wrote:By the way... "patina" on felt is actually 100+ years of grease, dust, cigarette smoke, mouse droppings and assorted misc. grime... So, in my opinion a clean felt is a good felt...
Once the felt is cleaned or replaced, I actually keep junk records on all of my machines to keep new dust off of the felt.
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Re: Cleaning the turntable felt
Ditto... And it also became oval in shape...Curt A wrote:I learned that lesson when I washed a 10" felt and it turned into an 8" one...