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[Beezerk]

What the heck is that, a toffee hammer?

 

[Fish]

What the heck is that, a toffee hammer?

It’s my Thakker stylus cleaner, Amazon should be ashamed using such over the top packaging ?

 

[cliveb]

It’s my Thakker stylus cleaner, Amazon should be ashamed using such over the top packaging ?

Let me start by stating that I don't have any experience with this Thakker brush, but looking at it online I see it claims to have soft carbon fibre strands.
If that's the case, and they are similar to the fibres used on a record cleaning brush, then as a stylus cleaner I'd estimate its efficacy to be close to zero.

The stuff that accumulates on a stylus tends to be quite sticky and difficult to remove. There are two ways to achieve that: use a solvent (typically isopropyl alcohol based), or something fairly abrasive. Linn used to actually sell a fine emery paper (similar to 1000 grade wet-and-dry) for stylus cleaning. If you're just tickling the stylus with some floppy carbon fibre strands without any solvent, nothing is going to come off except for dry fluff that would fall off anyway the instant you place the stylus on a rotating record.

If you're dubious about using emery paper (and I wouldn't blame you!), this is the sort of thing you need to properly clean the stylus:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nagaoka-Cl...=nagaoka+stylus+cleaner&qid=1590338137&sr=8-2
A bottle of this will last years.

 

[splashtryagain]

And get some moon gel. The stuff used for drums! Drop stylus onto it before each use and jobs s good un. Along with the nagaoka cleaning fluid.

 

[williamalex1]

I thought you might like them, enjoy re-listening to those old vinyl. I don't think it does 78rpm so some of your childhood LPs might not sound so good ??

Greg, I thought you might like this idea lol