DIRECTIONS FOR USING WHITE DIAMOND RECORD CLEANER

Place a clean cotton towel on your work surface and lay a record out on it.  Using the 4 oz. bottle provided, carefully squirt a fairly liberal amount of WHITE DIAMOND on the grooved surfaces of the record or completely saturate your brush or small cleaning cloth.

SCRUBBING:

Position the brush down over the grooves so that it spans the grooved area, from the lead-in groove at the outside edge to the run-out groove near the label. Lightly wipe all the way around the record once or twice to wet the entire surface evenly. Do not dampen the label.  If label gets wet simply blot dry- do not rub.

Once the entire surface has been evenly wetted, lightly scrub back and forth (only moderate pressure is required) in a semi-circle around the label  five or six times over one half of the record.  When the first half is done move on to the second half and scrub again in exactly the same manner. You can not scrub too much.  After the first side has be scrubbed, dry it completely with your vacuum device (VPI machine) (if using one) as you would normally then repeat the process for the other side.

3-STEP RINSING: (required when cleaning by hand without the use of a vacuum device)

1. Pre –Rinse  2. Scrub Rinse  3. Final Rinse---

Return any unused White Diamond cleaner that remains in the 4 ounce squirt bottle (applicator bottle) back into the cleaning fluid bottle.  (1.) Fill the squirt bottle with common distilled water for rinsing.  Slightly tip record and begin pre-rinse by applying rinse water below the label on the bottom half of the record so that the rinse water flows away from the label. Rotate record while rinsing until the entire grooved surface has been rinsed.  Rinse scrub brush and squeegee with finger. (2.) Saturate brush with rinse water and scrub lightly.  After rinse-scrubbing, (3.) pour rinse water on record once again while rotating.  Repeat process for the other side.

 Lay record flat on a clean cotton cloth or towel and rub lightly with another clean dry cotton cloth or towel.  Allow record to sit 10 or 15 minutes to complete drying before placing into a clean record sleeve*.

* We recommend dry brushing the record with a carbon fiber record brush (if one is owned) before returning it to the sleeve.  Carbon filament record brushes are relatively inexpensive and will last a lifetime to brush clean records before and after each playing. Doing so will greatly extend the time between wet cleanings!