static Issues...anybody know why?

Have you tried rubbing down the vinyl record with anti static laundry towelettes?

Ha Ha! You put a little bait in the hook and look who bites. Another Inglish Major. 🤗

Note to self - never get into tecknical argumints with English majors.

Sleepstalker, do you have snarcolepsy? You’re sleep walking but still snarky? 😴

mijostyn, you have obviously been following the wrong sheep. 🐑 🐑 🐑 I suggest you quit your job at Subway and go back and get your GED.

Lewm, you’ve been following the wrong monkeys. The force of friction impedes the inward motion of the stylus, it does produce it. Hel-loo!

The tendency of the stylus and cartridge to be forced inward on a blank section (for which their is virtually no friction) of the record illustrates that friction is not the driving force, it’s the centripetal force. In the case I just described of the blank section, the force of friction is actually toward the outer edge of the record. The innermost side of the groove wears faster than the outermost side if there is no anti-skate mechanism. That’s due to the centripetal force. As I already said, the force of friction due to the stylus riding along the groove is tangent to the direction of motion toward the center. So the force of friction has no inward vector. Hel-loo! This is an obvious case of monkey see, monkey do. 🐒 🐒 🐒

What a clever fellow.

Party pooper!

The force 🔜 of Friction on the stylus in the groove is tangent to the direction toward the center of the record. So the force of friction on the stylus can be thrown out. 🗑 

Next thing you know they’ll be saying static electric charge on CDs comes from a stylus and friction from paper sleeves. 😬

Skating force has nothing to do with friction. It has to do with counter-action the centripetal force, not the force of friction. 

Off the top of my head I’d say LAST is wrong. But maybe I’m not as gullible as some folks.

Perhaps you didn’t see the comment in the OP,

”When I use my Lyra Delos, no static at all.”

Case closed.

mijostyn
Wow, guys, anybody here know how a Van de Graaff generator works?
What do you do when you want to shock your little sister....hows about rub your feet on the carpet. I’ll leave it to you science nerds to look up why FRICTION causes static. Now I wonder where the friction is in a record playing system.

>>>>>Oh, you mean like the platter belt friction? Or maybe you mean the friction between the air molecules and the vinyl? I hope you don’t mean the stylus friction which is very low as long as geometry is correct.

In any event can we agree static is not caused by the stylus rubbing against the vinyl? That would be silly.

Huh? I always thought static electricity was produced by the vinyl record rubbing against air molecules as it spins. Also static electric charge is often transferred to the vinyl from the sleeve when withdrawing the record. Anti-static fluids and brushes can be used on vinyl. Nordost has one for audiophiles, some store bought sprays or towelettes are OK, too.