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Options for ridding records of static electricity

I am getting back into vinyl, listening to “garage sale” finds and also new albums that I have been picking up. I have a nice old Linn Sondek LP12 with the felt mat. Every time I go to remove a record from the spindle or flip the record, static electricity grabs the felt mat and it sticks like a magnet. I have to very carefully flip the felt mat at the corner with my finger but one of these times I’m going to slip and smudge or scratch a record. 

I’ve seen the “Milty Zerostat” and seem to remember this product from back in the day. I see that it is still made and there is one eBay vendor that has them for $77. Is this my best bet? I thought Michael Fremor talked about these in one of his videos. 

Are there other products I should look at to reduce static electricity on my records? Thanks for any help you can give.
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Ok guys...I had a static problem for years and literally tried every device, carbon fiber brushes, even grounded to the wall outlet, Zerostat etc etc. This past winter I decided to re-clean my 600 + album record collection and decided to do it with a ultrasonic cleaner. Did my research and got a ultrasonic cleaner, a device to rotate 4-albums at a time and made my own cleaning solution utilizing distilled water, 91% isopropyl alcohol, Triton X-100 and  Hepastat 256. The Hepastat is the defining difference static wise. Everything else gave me squeaky clean (LOL...quiet clean) albums , but the Hepastat is a quat and thus an anti static. 
I have been playing my albums (some over and over) on my VIP Aries 3 with a Benz LPS MR for the past 7 months and have not had to brush, Zerostat or anything else to remove static. 
Clean quiet and static pop free...


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