It turns out that completely discharging a record is not easy. I can now define four conditions No charge, Light charge, Charged and Heavily charged. It will pick up very small charges that otherwise go undetected. The PVC attracts it like a magnet and the Label repels it. I tied a length of 6-0 Prolene to a wood dowel and it worked beautifully. I have polypropylene in the form of suture material, the blue thread that many of you have seen. Studying the Triboelectric series I noted that polypropylene is at the opposite end to PVS. I had to find a more sensitive way to measure static as it became apparent that using your own hair is very insensitive. We just had a real good cold snap in New England dropping the humidity to under 20% so I was able to run a set of qualitative experiments documenting some surprising results that I hope will clear up a lot of the mystery and help people contro static charge and the accumulation of dust on their record. We had a long discussion on the possible causes of static electrical charges on records in another thread.
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