X-100 (Nonionic Surfactant) | Premium-Quality Laboratory and Industrial Grade Cleaning Surfactant - 100mL (3.3 Fl Oz)

Always worked for me as a great vinyl record cleaner and it doesn't expire!

I don't know if this product ever expires, but if it doesn't I'll never need to buy again. I'm a fountain pen user, and I was looking for an inexpensive way to re-wet nibs and/or aid in cleaning when changing ink colors. I mix this down A LOT, and keep a small bottle of the mixed down solution in a dropper bottle. I keep a glass well by my desk, and put a few drops in filtered water. Works very well. Just need to be sure to wipe off any excess or you may make the ink a bit runny at first.

Just a few drops of this in a couple liters of your home made record cleaning solution will help the detergent do an even better job by really breaking water's self-attraction and letting it get into the micro grooves. There's some surfactant in the widely recommended Dawn detergent, but for washing the itty bitty microscopic grooves of vinyl records, adding Triton-X will expand the ability of the detergent to squeeze in there. The oft-recommended online home recipe is for 2 liters distilled water containing some small amount of Dawn dishwashing detergent, some small amount of isopropyl alcohol or even pure ethanol. Add a few drops of Triton. Apply with a microfiber cloth of the type used for eyeglass cleaning, or some specialty applicator. Then rinse with distilled water. There are all sorts of recipes online, and many proprietary formulas, some at breathtaking prices. The art and science of cleaning vinyl records is its own little word inhabited by insistent fanatics. Do a web search and be perplexed. But for sure, use distilled water at every step of the way. Dawn is said to rinse more thoroughly than other detergents. Many experts and others have posted their advice and commands online, and many of them will tell you my suggestions a hooey. There are battles fought over using alcohol at all. Just be careful with your valuable records. Study up on what the masters propound online, and first experiment on a few expendable albums. They are your records. Have fun cleaning them up. Triton-X will help you do the best job you can.

Works good in ultrasonic cleaner as a booster to isonic blue cleaner. No strong chemical smell, very good sheeting action, but does not dosolve or blend into water easily, its very thick and gelatinous. Drops float in water and dont disolve when stired. Agitation disolves product but this causes foam, ultrasonic and foam = very bad. I make a gallon of distilled high concentrate with 6 or 8 capfulls and shake it untill desolved then rest it untill foam is gone . I add 2 ounces to the ultrasonic tank. No foam.

This stuff works wonders for cleaning records. I followed the Library of Congress method utilizing this as a surfactant mixed in distilled water with isopropyl alcohol followed with a straight distilled water rinse. This mixture will clean the dirtiest of LPs. LOC also uses some form of a quat as an antistatic/antimicrobial agent, and while I may try and work that into my cleaning solution, I find storing LPs in anti-static sleeves seem to prevent any charge build up and I am not terribly worried about mold. An entire gallon of solution only requires ~8 mL(0.2% v/v) and ~5% v/v IPA. You can immediately sense the surface tension of the liquid drop when you add this to the mix allowing the solution to clean the entirety of the groove.

The top of the cap popped and most of the liquid spilled into the plastic bag I had it in. The late to return.

great addition to my vinyl record cleaning arsenal!

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