Random Static Hits

1. Do a home cooking
2. Turn on shower head and open bathroom door
3. Make some tea or coffee
4. Wet clean your home
6. get humidifier

If you have a forced air system add a humidifier. If not get one for the room, you can shut off while listening.

It's static build-up from 2 likely sources: 1. Belt running on platter builds up static. 2. Lifting the record off the platter builds up static. You can see that as you play more records both factors are increasing.

Get a Zerostat gun. They work. Shoot the bare platter, the record before you put it on. If it's a severe case you might need to do it to the belt.

You can also spray the belt with anti-static spray, which you can find on the net.

Drier weather makes static build-up worse.

I'd suggest first buying a good humidistat to see just how dry the room is, near the system. Then you can get a better handle on how big a problem you have and how effective the various fixes are. For instance, I gave away my Zerostat after discovering that it was really not doing the job, even as a band-aid.

The only really effective solution in my case was an 8 gallon humidifier from Sears whose filters cost $18 and don't last more than a couple months, so it's hardly a cheap fix. But it works, and nothing else did. Believe me, I tried everything mentioned above and even draped copper anti-static tinsel over the system. At least that had a festive look :-)