Cleaning Very Dirty Records with Soap

For records that are in really bad shape, you can use dish soap and a cotton cloth. Pour some soap on the record and run the cloth around the record with the grooves. Do this with it under running water, and make sure you rinse out all the soap.

I did this once and it worked very well. I was a little disappointed the paper in the center of the record got wet, and was discolored when it dried, but the record sounded a lot better.

Source: Heard this on a radio show some years back when cassettes were starting to be the rage. :)

By Suntydt from Tazewell, TN