HumminGuru Orbit Vinyl Record Static Remover

There ya go @harpo75!

VSS offers the double sleeve in a variety of different configurations. I recommend getting one packet (25 sleeves)---or even just a single sleeve---of each model that looks interesting, to learn what works best for you (there is also a $5 sample pack). For instance, the Double Pocket sleeve has a flap that encloses the outer cover, and you have a choice of a flap with no tape (just tuck in the flap), a flap with a strip of tape on it, and also a version with the strip of tape on the body of the sleeve rather than the flap.

For single-LP gatefold jackets, VSS offers a "Multifunctional" model, which you use in conjunction with the Double Pocket model (for reasons which will become apparent when you put them on, it must be the Double Pocket with the tape strip on the body, not the flap). There is also a double-LP gatefold model, or you can do what I have done and just use two regular Double Pocket sleeves.

The standard sized sleeve is about 12-5/8" (+ or - a coupla millimeters) tall and deep, but there are also 12-3/4" and 13" versions available (for MoFi and Analogue Productions-sized covers). VSS also offers plain old single pocket outer sleeves (with or without a flap), and inner sleeves as well. At least as good as the MoFi sleeves (VSS offers a thicker version), and cheaper.

Orders of $55 or greater (U.S.A. dollars) ship free. And I may as well get this out of the way: No, I am not on the VSS payroll.

@ghdprentice has the right idea. The Hudson HiFi brush discharges static to ground and sweeps incidental dust out of the way of the stylus. I use one and my record cleaning solution has Larostat 264A in it which totally prevents static build up. The effect is long lasting. Using plastic sleeves is important as paper sleeves will assist static build up.

Hudson Hi-Fi provides no proof that the goats hair bristles of their anti-static arm "discharges" the negative charge on the surface of the LP (or even a technical explanation of how that discharging is accomplished), transfers "something" into the arm, and then into a ground wire, and that signal in the wire is then sent to ground. Color me dubious.

The static charge is a very well understood phenomenon, as is the means required to neutralize it. Anti-static brushes have been in use in film labs for decades. I see no technology in the Hudson Arm that seriously addresses the static charge. The Arm looks like a toy to me.

I have tried… using the ZeroStat gun (1 - 3) by instructions for decades ( I have purchased four over time, and brought one out periodically) with no positive results. I lived in Tucson for 25 years… static head quarters.

The Hudson works on the size of the album that is playing. I read about and see the small grounding wire / fiber in the middle of the spray of brush bristles for catching dust. I haven’t delved into the physics… but it both eliminates static and catch’s dust on the playing side of the album. Eliminating to problem. So, for me the Hudson works great.

I appreciate the info on the pocketed sleeves.  Thanks!

Now if I could just find some triple gatefold outer sleeves!