static Issues...anybody know why?

mijostyn, you have obviously been following the wrong sheep. 🐑 🐑 🐑 I suggest you quit your job at Subway and go back and get your GED.

Lewm, thank you for butting in. Static electricity forms when electrons are transferred from one item to another. For this to happen one item must be non conductive (vinyl). If you look up the triboelectric series PVC is almost at the bottom of the negative side. PVC loves to collect electrons.
Transferring electrons requires intimate contact and is aided by friction and heat.(rubbing your feet on the carpet). The tonearm being grounded is a fabulous source of electrons. The stylus with some several thousand PSI of pressure is in extremely intimate contact with the PVC and the spinning turntable provide the friction and heat to make it a great static manufacturing system. The charge migrates quickly across the surface of the record but not the label! Which is why a grounded spindle won't help. If you go back to the triboelectric series paper is a little bit to the positive side. It is a weak electron donor. It will not accept a negative charge. I hope that does it for you.  

mijostyn

Yes geometry is in part responsible for skating. It is called the OFFSET ANGLE ...

I’m glad that you understand that, because it isn’t what you previously stated:

Why does a tonearm skate? ... What does geometry have to do with it? VTF maybe.

As for this:

I suggest that while you are listening to music you stand right in front of your turntable and give it a Zerostat squirt every 15 seconds.

I don’t need a Zerostat because I don’t have a problem with static while playing LPs.

Dress like a Mexican Bandit and smoke a big cigar.

Will you please explain what that means? I can’t make any sense out of it at all.

kcleveland, in my last post I mentioned that paper will not except electrons so it will not remove static from PVC whereas some plastics will. So the paper sleeves seem to cause more static only because they are not removing any(electrons) from the record so the record comes out of the paper sleeve with as much static as it went in. Plastic sleeves discharge the record so when you take your record out of the sleeve it has less static. The old companies knew this and lined their paper sleeves with plastic. Taking the record in and out of the sleeve does not cause static. The sleeve is not in intimate enough contact to initiate the triboelectric effect. Google it!

Geoffy the Static Troll: “(for which their is virtually no friction)”

Ummm Geoffy, hel-loo, rpt, hel-loo, grab a dictionary! The word “their” is possessive, and “is virtually no friction” is not a noun. Get on the English literacy 🚂 choo choo 🚂!