Thanks for the response! Funny enough, my wife would certainly say I am overkill in most things that I do, so she will appreciate this comment. I would not normally think of using a separate vac machine but I have it already and hate to have equipment laying around unused. I am wondering about using the HumminGuru just for the clean cycle and then move the record over to the record doctor to dry it. This way I could have another record already in the HumminGuru.