HumminGuru Orbit Vinyl Record Static Remover

I appreciate the info on the pocketed sleeves.  Thanks!

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

@harpo75: There is a way to use the VSS Double Pocket sleeves on a triple gatefold jacket, I’ve done it.

You put a Double Pocket sleeve on both the two outer gatefolds, with the tape strips on the flaps on the back of the jacket (you MUST use the version with the tape on the flap, rather than the body). But before you put them on, take a Multifunction sleeve, cut off both flaps (I lay a sleeve down on cardboard, place a straight edge across the sleeve right where the flap meets the pocket, and slice with an Exacto knife), then slide the sleeve past either of the gatefolds until the sleeve covers the middle section of the jacket. Then secure the two Double Pocket sleeves to the Multifunction sleeve with the tape strips on the flaps. If you don't want to cut off the two flaps on the Multifunction sleeve you don't have to, but in that case the sleeve must be used with the flaps on the inside of the gatefold jacket.

You then have a pocket on the inside of the front gatefold for one LP, and a pocket on the inside of the rear gatefold for the second and third LP’s. That might sound confusing, but once you have the Double Pocket sleeves in hand it will become obvious.

FWIW, the key to the Hudson Hi-Fi LP Record Cleaning Antistatic Arm Brush (hudsonhifi.com) is that the goat hair brush has carbon fiber bristles at the center.  That's why it can work with the ground cable to attached to a good ground.  If in doubt, just take a digital multimeter and measure the resistance from the carbon fibers to the end of the ground cable.  

Further thoughts: Considering it’s extremely low price, the Hudson Arm/Brush is certainly worth a try. As I thought about it more, a couple of things occurred to me.

1- If the Hudson Arm/Brush is used alone (with no other anti-static device), playing a disc with a static charge would mean as the LP is playing, the area not yet having come into contact with the Arm’s bristles will still have a charge, and therefore be attracting dust. That is especially true if records are played with no dust cover in place.

2- I never play an LP until I have deep cleaned it, whether new or used. And I don’t necessarily immediately listen to every LP I have just cleaned If only the Hudson arm is used to address static, and deep cleaning has created a static charge on the disc (or it already had one, which the cleaning did not remove), that would mean the disc would be put into an inner sleeve clean but with a static charge. Not a good idea.

But there is no reason the Hudson arm cannot be used in conjunction with any other anti-static device. So treat the disc with a, say, Destat III, then play it with the Hudson arm in place. In the late-60’s/early-70’s I used the Cecil E. Watts Dust Bug, which differed from the Hudson Arm in that it had a round barrel of bristles in place of the goat’s hair/carbon fiber bristles, and had no grounding wire. I was amazed by how the Dust Bug tracked the LP at the same speed as did the cartridge. I assume the same is true of the Hudson arm.