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How to keep your 12" toons clean, The hard sell!!

Lesson Beginner Stage 7: Software & Gear November 2007

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Come in. Oh, come in. Yeah, you, come in. Someone's asked about how do you clean your records? Well, between me and you, you should always be clean. The only thing you should have on your records is occasionally a couple of the old sticky little finger marks. How do you get rid of them? Right, there's this stuff. It's called a milty cleaning fluid. Now, basically what it is, either comes like in a spray or like in a little pot. Proper cleaning cloth, get some of the fluid on it, go around the record and what it does, it will actually get rid of the dirt, the grime and that sort of stuff. But forget the advertising, this is how you keep your records clean. Right, watch. This is a double 12 inch. Quite often with the 12 inch singles you will have these things here, these thin pieces of paper. Now they're not there to look pretty.

They're not there to write requests on from the punters. They're not there for this purpose, to put over your head and use as a hat. No, what they're there for is this, to put the records in. But, hold on, this is what you don't do. Can you see there? There's the opening. That's where the records actually fit in like that. This then is the other cover. Don't do it like that. It's the easiest thing in the world because guess what? It's so much quicker to get your tunes out, isn't it? They're called dust covers. Do you know why? Because give it six months and all the dust is going to get in there. This is more important than that cleaning whatever it is, okay? Take them out and spin them 90 degrees. Now then look, there's your tunes in there. Nice and neat. Forget having to clean your records.

Make sure they're always clean anyway. Clean and enjoy! Thank you for watching, bye bye.

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