How to clean a vinyl record

[BurningLaserGuy]

I wonder what solution and what type of cloth I should use to clean vinyl. I just bought one yesterday (Metallica - Kill' em All). I don't trust youtube vids too much so that's why I asked here. Thanks in advance!

 

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[danefex]

How dirty is your record & what's on it? I've used wet paper towels 100s of times for dust or minor smudges and this method works great

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[ZRaffleticket]

There's two ways my dad does it.
Usually water, soap and a microfiber cloth do the trick. (We have a plastic cleaner where you have four horizontal cloths, in pairs which the record slides between, above a small pool of water. The cleaner bottoms out and the edge of the record glides across that.)

Though if we're trying to sell it for a decent amount of money the glue will put it in the best condition it can be in (though that does take time to fully remove, results vary).

 

[BurningLaserGuy]

My record is quite new and have only some dust on it I think because is electo-static charghed or something, I don't think I should use glue just a cloth...

 

[ZRaffleticket]

Since its like new, avoid the glue then. The cloth cleaning is enough.

 

[BurningLaserGuy]

ok then, thanks you guys

 

[Bionic-Badger]

Can't you just use some canned air if whatever is on the record isn't sticky?

 

[BurningLaserGuy]

Will do a wet cloth? Because everytime I clean it with a dry one more dust set on it... I mean I think it is electrically charged. Sorry for my noob questions but I'm really new in vinyl discs.