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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
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Subject: Re: Eliminating static from records
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Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 00:37:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 00:37:59 1983
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I find that a conductive carbon-fibre brush (the Decca Record Brush is
one example) seems to do a good job of discharging static from records.

For routine cleaning, I use a Nagaoka Rolling cleaner.  It has a cylinder
coated with a permanently soft and slightly sticky compound which you
roll across the record.  Apparently it sort of "flows" down into the
grooves and sticks to the really fine dust in the bottom of the groove.
Looking at a record under a strong, contrasty light before and after use
confirms this.  It isn't so good at getting rid of large fluffy stuff
like hairs, but a brush (see above) handles them.  The rolling cleaner
does seem to generate static.  It will only pick up dry dirt.  If you
get a fingerprint or like gunk on your record (shame!) you'll have to
resort to something like Discwasher to get rid of it.