Zero Stat Gun

I complete second Dougdeacon's response. What you are hearing has 99% likely nothing to do with static. As Doug state with static you would hear a very loud pop only every few revolutions.

What you DO hear is dirt in the grooves or possibly even groove damage.

There is an old misconception that crackle on pop on records is called static which is a completely incorrect usage of the term for vinyl (unlike static on the radio).

ok lots of questions to answer here so bare with me.

YES all the records in question are from family who YES never took care of them.

My collection on the other hand have always been cared for and have no problems.

I set myself out on a task to get some of these records back to be at least some what listenable. Reason being i found some gems, now i am dumb when it comes to cleaning records because honestly i store my records properly and really just brush them with the HUNT cleaning brush and at one point used permastat anti static preservation which i believe could be why MY collection is very quiet and enjoyable to listen too. Now anything new i buy i just use the HUNT brush and then a little gruv glide for static because it kinds does everything all around. I couldn't find permastat so i went to gruv glide but i found permastat again so when i run out of gruv glide i will return to permastat.

I do not have a record cleaning machine so what is the alternative to getting all that crap out of the grooves?

And guys thanks so much for your help, oh and what kept me thinking it was static was taking the terms snap crackle and pop literally.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

and my rig is as follows

Primare I21 CD 21
Thiel 1.6
Music Hall MMF5
Music Hall pa1.2
Kimber Kable Interconnects
Monster Mseries 2.2 (will upgrade soon, Harvey closed there store on LI and I pick them up (20 ft pair) for 163 bucks.

Fablous sound so its really annoying to listen to dirty records on a nice modest system.

HELP!!!!

oh i also wanna to add

power condition to pass labs outlet on its own circuit.

Disc Doctor Record Cleaning system is one of the best non-machine solutions.

Dave

As far as cleaning without a RCM, the best way appears to be a hand-held steamer and wipe down with microfiber clothes. There are 2 extensive steam cleaning threads here on audiogon that detail this as well as videos on you-tube. I'm using steam and Disc Doctor fluids with a VPI 16.5 and get great results. Others report similar results with just the steamer and microfiber cloth. The other big trend currently are the enzyme solutions from AI, Walker and now MoFi which I have yet to try due to cost, the increaded time they require, and my natural skeptisism (in the case of AI and MoFi) that enzymes will remain active when held in solution for longer than a few hours.