The Record Vacuum By Ronco (Commercial #1, 1978)

Another reason to jettison the vinyl and switch to CDs!

My dad worked for Ronco back in the 70s and 80s. He told me "cordless electric" was a buzzword they came up with so they didnt have to say that it needed batteries, which most Ronco items did, usually C cells or D cells

I miss Woolworth and Woolco takes me back, that is where I would find lots of LPs (sigh).

Just went to Walgreens they didn't have any. Definitely would have been a perfect Christmas gift this year.

I had and still have the velour brush that you just hold over the record while it spins, came in a super fancy dust free case.

Yes, DexterVane, the Spin Clean Record Washer is an excellent product! You can actually see how much dirt collects in the bottom of the wash basin!

All my moms records from the 60's and 70's still play good. 

I had a Ronco Record Vacuum, but now I use the Spin Clean Record Washer!

I tried to market an MP3 vacuum and failed miserably.

Now people listen to music on iTunes, Deezer, Spotify, etc. One day music companies will stop making CDs. Nowadays I can tell if a car to two years old or newer. If it has a CD player, it is at least three years old. If it does not have a CD player, it is two years or newer.

These Machines were VERY effective! People just used to LOVE to hate anything made by Ronco! It was a snobby thing. (like today people shopping anywhere other than M & S) This Machine had two foil strips which were wired up to the power which would neutralise the static; if they didn’t clean that well, they definitely stopped the Records from gathering dust! It was also like a vacuum cleaner inside, and so it actually sucdks up the dust from the surface of the Record and blow it out of a little vent at the back. Finally, there were two sponges that you could dab with cleaner fluid that the Record ran through at quite a speed which allowed it to be dry and not get too wet by the time you removed it! All round, not a bad little Gadget! Despite what you think, Ronco sold MILLIONS of these at the time – stores couldn’t get enough of them! In fact. I can recall our Woolworth putting a couple of pounds on the price when they kept selling so fast! Not sure why, but the British version was a totally different shape, slight bigger and noisier, and I believe more effective. I have both types, and the British one is way more efficient which surprised me, since the US usually does things better.

I'm pitching the MP3 vacuum. It t also cleans WAV and .OGG!

I can't afford not to get one....

I remember that my family had one

0:33. That dude is going to get his needle vacuumed. Hope he has protection.

Him: protect your records Also him: (pulls record off by just grabbing it with one hand)

"in fact, get two or three" 😏 What I just noticed – the small imperfections when zooming & panning as this (I guess) had to be done on the fly with the camera, no digital post production where you can essentially just take a hi-res total and do all the zooming later (eg. the music video for REM's "Imitation of Life" being an easy to observe example)

still waiting on that Ronco Record Vault lol

Walgreens is where I get all my hifi equipment

i wonder how many RPMs it spins the record at whilst cleaning it.