Post by cooksferry on Apr 11, 2018 7:02:48 GMT 12
Interested to hear from anyone using the L'art Du Son fluid on their RCM. It gets pretty good reviews but there does seem to be some problems with the fluid going off and developing lumps or mold in the bottle.
Storage may be an issue here with some recommendations to mix only small amounts at a time and keeping it away from exposure to light.
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Post by Citroen on Apr 11, 2018 16:08:13 GMT 12
I bought a bottle a year or so ago.
Can't say I noticed it being better or worse than my basic alcohol, surfactant, distilled water mix. But as alcohol is frowned upon these days and my tests weren't exactly scientific I just continued to use the L'art Du Son.
Well, that was before I got the US cleaning machine, so haven't used the L'art Du Son for a while.
Just checked my remainder which I keep in the dark and yes, there's a few whispers of particles forming. Gave it a good shake, and most have dissolved but still quite a few solid particles. No mold, I think.
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Post by Owen Y on Apr 12, 2018 12:27:37 GMT 12
One thing about alcohol, it's a disinfectant, so probably will inhibit/kill such mould/fungus.
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Post by cooksferry on Apr 13, 2018 11:06:13 GMT 12
Chickened out on the L'art Du Son fluid and just ordered some Project Wash-It fluid from the UK. A 500m bottle with freight is also cheaper than the L'art Du Son on TM.
Messaged the Project importers a few days ago to see if they're going to bring in the fluid and not a squeak in reply Can't see the point in bringing the Vac unit in if you're not going to provide consumables .
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Post by guitardude on Apr 15, 2018 21:12:35 GMT 12
I'm not too sure of the validity of the anti alcohol theory: supposedly it washes the plasticiser out of the PVC, but imo unless it was soaking in it for an extended period of time I cant see it happening. In the plasticiser migration experiments i've done it takes quite a while for the plasticisers to leach out of PVC. Plasticers btw are normally low boiling point solvents the common ones used in PVC manufacture being DOP and DIDP ( di octyl phlate and di methyl dectyl pthalate), The most commonly know relative being DIMP that you use to keep away sandflies. (Di iso methyl pthlate.) The usual plasticiser migration test is done with butter. You can try this at home with an old record. Put a piece on butter on a record, leave it overnight and taste the butter in the morning. If the butter tastes rancid that's your plasticiser that has migrated into it. Hope that someone finds this of interest.
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Post by Owen Y on Sept 9, 2019 20:57:10 GMT 12
I came across this Positive Feedback 2012 Robert Levi 'review' mentioning the L'Art du Son fluid (compared to the Record Time 'enzymatic' cleaning fluid.
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Post by michaelw on Sept 9, 2019 21:01:09 GMT 12
is this the fluid that was not named in the recent fremer panel on record cleaning ?
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Post by Owen Y on Sept 9, 2019 21:12:59 GMT 12
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