Many of our customers at CleanerVinyl.com wonder what the 'best' spacing between the vinyls is when cleaning them with an ultrasonic cleaner. There are a lot of 'strong opinions' out there on the discussion fora etc...our experience is that it does not matter that much. Sure there is some absorption of the ultrasonic energy on the records in the cleaner, i.e. if there are many records one should run the cleaner a bit longer, but in general, ultrasonic cleaning is able to penetrate very small cracks and crevices. Check out this video, which demonstrates that dirt can be removed between two pressed-together ceramic rings:
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We performed many experiments at CleanerVinyl.com and we came to the conclusion that even at less than 0.5 inches spacing the records get clean very effectively if you run them for 10-15 min. Since the main effort during record cleaning is to take them out of the sleeves and putting them in the cleaner, running them a few minutes longer is really not a big deal. It is much more important to have a bigger batch size if high through-put is desired (imagine cleaning a collection of a few thousand records, or if you wanted to clean the vintage vinyl intake at a record store etc...
Check out our CleanerVinyl Pro and Max systems, which were designed for high throughput needs:
The Pro System (Up to 12 records, drying position, Micron fluid filtration):
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| CleanerVinyl Pro System |
And the Max System (up to 24 records, Micron fluid filtration, drying fan):
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| CleanerVinyl Max System |
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