The idea.

This might sound weird, but I love cleaning records. There is something insanely satisfying in picking up a disk cheap, because it’s covered in manky stuff, then cleaning it until it shines.

A great example is the copy of True by Spandau Ballet (don’t laugh), that I picked up for a quid. It looked awful, but for the money, I thought what the hell.
I tried playing it before cleaning (don’t do this normally, I was making science), and it sounded awful. “Gold” sounded more like “Poorly cast aluminium played through a crossley”.
10 minutes with a wet microfibre later, and it sounded like new. There is something really quite nice about that.
Machines exist that will spin and pull dirt off of the record, but they are rather pricey (From where I live, I wouldn’t have change from £60+).

The plan.

I didn’t live in a Lego house. We were a K’Nex family.
And trawling through a SuperU bag in the garage full of it, it came to me. A K’nex frame, which could hold and spin the LP through a tank of water/solution.
My tape measure reckoned 16cm would be enough to lift the LP, so with that in mind, I set to work.

So far:

The mount is finished.
The gearing is finished(Stepping down the speed by 2.5x).
The motor mount finished.

I tried to make a system that could use a crank or motor. The handle can be retracted (gnng), and the motor attatched. I need to sort some kind to stabilisation bracket for neatness.

Future progress.
I need to find/build/steal a tank. Preferably a perspex one.
30cmx3cmx11cm. Not the most common shape.

I think I’m going to need the glue gun. Actually, that’s an excellent excuse to buy one. How crafty.

I also plan to add a microfibre mount. The plan is to make it clamp a cloth, meaning many many cleanings from a poundland special cloth 😀
Schematics:

Haha, no. Not yet.

Once I’ve finished, I see no reason not to 🙂