WHO THIS POST IS NOT FOR

All right, some of you are probably audiophiles. You have plastic sleeves for all of your records. You hold the records by the edges when you play them. You don’t have kids who use your records for a frisbee. Or dogs. Or cats. You actually clean your records. You actually change your needle now and then.

This post is not for you.

ARCHIVAL SLEEVES

For the rest of you, if you have any kind of collection, you’ll need plastic archival sleeves. The paper ones your records came in disintegrate, leaving dust on your records or worse, the dust grates against your record like sandpaper when you remove it from the jacket.

Here’s your solution: 500 Thick 3mil Polyethylene Plastic Record Outer Sleeves for 12″ Vinyl Record Albums or LPs.

If you have fewer or more records, don’t worry. I’ve included lesser and greater amounts of these records sleeves in the Jazzbo Notes Store in the Stereo Equipment Section.

RECORD CLEANING KIT

But before you use these sleeves, your records had better be clean. That can be accomplished in most cases with a simple record cleaning brush and solution, such as the Stanton Magnetics Record Cleaner Kit.

If your records only have a bit of dust on them, an even better solution is compressed air, which is often used for blowing dust out from the inside of a computer cabinet:

Just simply point the nozzle at the dusty record from a few inches away and spray. Voila! No more dust.

But what if your records are really, truly dirty or worse yet, covered with mold? Well, the first thing to do is to wash them with warm soapy water. But what then? If you truly value your record collection, then you’ll want to invest in a Keith Monks or Loricraft record cleaning machine, which is pricey.

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