The Disc Doctor's cleaning product consists of a carefully formulated cleaning solution designed to remove all impurities and rinse clean leaving no residues. The complete cleaning system comprises:

 The solution

 2 small dispenser bottles

 A pair of cleaning pads with spare replacement covers

 A bottle of distilled water

 5 Lint free cotton cleaning cloths.

To use the system, first brush any dust or hairs from the record then place it on a work surface on a protective cloth. I use two of the lint free cloths supplied with the package. Cleaning solution is applied to a dampened pad and wiped round the record following the grooves. It is then worked into the surface by rubbing the pad back & forth 3 or 4 times over a third of the record's circumference. This is then repeated until the entire record has been cleaned. The cleaner is then wiped off with a lint free cloth. I then repeat this process for the B side of the record. Then I rinse the record under a cold running tap. I find this extra rinse very helpful in getting a quiet background to music. To ensure no pollution of the cleaned surface I finish off with a distilled water clean. if you live in an area with hard or tainted water you might want to use a water filter or bottled water for this stage. The excess water is dried off with a separate lint free cloth. Next distilled water is applied to the second cleaning pad and worked into the record surface using the same method as the cleaner; finally the record is dried with a third lint free cloth. After treatment the record is racked in a plate rack and left to air dry. In a typical cleaning session I will rack up 10 records at a time. Alternatively records can be dried with a vacuum cleaner with a velvet protected nozzle.

Once a record has been properly cleaned this way with careful handling you should never have to clean it again. Just brush before and after playing with a Carbon Fibre record brush, always handle records only by the edges, and always keep records in their new film lined sleeves. Even new mint records should be cleaned with the solution as it removes the mould (as in moulding plastic not musty stuff!) release agent left from pressing the record which will obscure some elements of the sound.

Below I have shown an especially bad example record I found at a local charity shop. The obvious food contamination had become a base for mould to grow and develop and the result was something I would never subject my stylus too!

And here is the same record after cleaning with the disc doctor kit, fit to play or sell. This particular box set by the way is listed at £25 on the web.