Mylar tape on Teres has lots of static.

Thom is correct, grounding the bearing will help. The motor housing is grounded and grounding the platter puts both at the same potential.

Doug, with acrylic platters grounding the platter makes a big difference. With the wood platters it does not matter as much. I think that the reason is simply that wood builds up a lot less static. But even in the case of a wood platter grounding the bearing helps reduce static.