Record Roller - Vinyl Record Cleaner - Reusable Record Cleaner - Liquid Free | Record Rescue

I was highly skeptical but for a few bucks this roller does incredible work! Instead of brushing dust and paper fragments into a big pile like most record brushes it actually picks the noisy stuff up on the roller. It doesn’t work miracles and won’t do much for really dirty records but is a great tool for already cleaned records or those just taken out of the package. I was also worried about scratching but rest assure it causes zero damage or at least none that I have noticed. Just make sure you wash it when it starts to accumulate a lot of crud. I use hand soap and let it air dry. I’ve washed it more than10 times now and it still works like new!

Great little device .... even if you have a $1,000 Ultrasonic Cleaner, this little roller is perfect for the quick, dry cleaning situations in between the more time consuming and more involved Ultrasonic cleanings. It won't eliminate the need to "wet clean" every so often, but it will absolutely take care of all the lint/dust that can very quickly build up and become too much for your regular goat hair or carbon fiber brushes.

Works well but could use some improvement. It does remove all of the little dusty bits and paper pieces from those paper inserts that come with our records that are hard to remove, however, the roller could be a little longer, perhaps just 1/2”.My main concern is with how thin the roller itself is; I think the actual diameter of the silicone roller itself should be a bit larger, that way there less chance of accidentally scratching your record when using it. As it is, the roller is so small, there’s only 1/8” distance between the surface of the roller and the round plastic end pieces that hold the roller to the handle. It would be super easy to go around in a circle/following the grooves, have your angle be off a bit,, and have that hard-plastic scratch your record while trying to gently swipe the surface of the disc.I still like it, the roller works well for it’s intended purpose. Just some notes.

Been using this for well over a year now and really love it. Cleaning records is classically a pain in the butt. This works great for picking up debris on the record, dust and physical filth. It will not completely clean a record, as finger prints and such will need something with a fluid, but this is a great first process for record cleaning as it will remove a lot of dust & particles, even on new records right from the plant. My one complaint is that the surface area of the roller is small so it gets covered in grime pretty quickly, a bigger roller would get more grime before needing to be washed off & dried. This combined with Groove glide will solve most standard cleaning. Highly recommended as one piece of a home cleaning process.

I am starting to find that vinyl dust solutions are not a 'catch all' and need to be stacked to be used together. If you told me a year ago that I'd be buying $15 or $20 record cleaning tools which look like something you'd be at the dollar store, I'd have said you were crazy. Yet here I am rolling what is basically a $15 lint brush across my vinyl.Previously, I purchased a record cleaning brush which basically pushed dust out of the grooves (to some degree) and away from the record ... only to leave a linear strip of dust which was then electromagnetically charged and hard to remove from the record. This was unacceptable because it was basically just lining up the dust vs. removing it from the surface. Enter the record roller.This thing won't clean dust out of the grooves of a record as well as a brush ... so I use my $20 brush to clean the record for a few turns and then do a quick roll over the line of dust with the $15 record roller. Quite a process, quite expensive, but I don't think that one tool or the other will work well on its own. If I had to choose one over the other, I'd say the record roller would be my choice over the brush. I do worry a bit about it leaving a tacky residue on the surface which will then attract more dust (this time sticky dust!) or worse, leave a little tacky slime on the record. I am sure that after I use this on a record, it will attract more dust and paper dust than if I didn't. Not sure if its because of tacky residue or electromagnetic charging.It's amazing how much even brand new records attract sleeve paper dust or particles of dust from the air which results in the dreaded popping and crackle, especially with a sensitive stylus. As for how well this works ... after 2-4 records, I can see the dust all over the surface of the record roller and it becomes not sticky. At which point, I run it under some warm water and roll it around once or twice. Within a few minutes, it's sticky again.Why did I purchase this one vs. the others? It includes a plastic case. Maybe the other ones do too ... but this one specifically mentions the case and believe me ... the case is a necessity with this! Overall, this thing (if used for any other purpose than record cleaning) would be $1 - $2 at a toy store or dollar store. It's cheap Chinese made plastic and nothing more. Because audiophiles who spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on equipment are a different breed, they can easily be fleeced for $15 for this.Do you need it? Kind of ... Do you wish you didn't ... for sure! As mentioned, this alone won't remove fingerprints, smudges or dust from the inner grooves of records. It will dispatch a top layer of dust or paper particles and save you from some crackle or pops, I guess it's the best tool for under $20 you can buy for record cleaning but in no way will do everything you need to get your vinyl pristine.