Tumeni Notes
pfm Member
Remember Permostat? If not, it was marketed in the UK in the .. late 1970s? Early 1980s? Spray liquid onto LP, buff it energetically into the surface with supplied velvet pad, and LP remained free from static. That it did ...
HOWEVER;
Store the LP in a poly-lined inner, and the treatment seemed to react with the poly, produced a surface stain on the LP. I took to storing permostatted LPs in plain-paper inners.
First two or three plays after treatment seemed to result in the dried-in spray being transferred to the stylus, which then required more cleaning.
I drifted away from using it altogether, regretted using it in the first place, and most of the treated LPs have sat on the shelf for most of these past 40 years or so.
I now have a vacuum RCM, and cleaning up the victims of my folly is on the agenda. I'm unsure if the RCM liquid will liquify the permostat coating, but think I'm going to try anyway.
I wondered if anyone here has had any experience of cleaning permostatted LPs, and how it worked out for them?
HOWEVER;
Store the LP in a poly-lined inner, and the treatment seemed to react with the poly, produced a surface stain on the LP. I took to storing permostatted LPs in plain-paper inners.
First two or three plays after treatment seemed to result in the dried-in spray being transferred to the stylus, which then required more cleaning.
I drifted away from using it altogether, regretted using it in the first place, and most of the treated LPs have sat on the shelf for most of these past 40 years or so.
I now have a vacuum RCM, and cleaning up the victims of my folly is on the agenda. I'm unsure if the RCM liquid will liquify the permostat coating, but think I'm going to try anyway.
I wondered if anyone here has had any experience of cleaning permostatted LPs, and how it worked out for them?