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What do people place on their platter for dust protection

Just wanted to hit everyone up for some responses. I'm tired of worrying about taking my pristine VM cleaned vinyl on a platter thats been idle for a week. I have a TT in which a dustcover woukd be inpractable. I hadnt googled for it yet. I just wanted to ask here. Plus I'm recovering from surgery and have some extra time.
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glupson
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geoffkait,

I am sorry (for once), but I completely do not understand point of your last post.
glupson
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dweller,

I thought it must have been a slip as O2 and O3 are very different animals.

It makes me wonder (no relation to Stevie), if those ion generators do something to ozone (layer), should they be avoided for the benefit of human race? Just like CFC etc.

All the downsides would be offset by increase in economy due to higher sales of record-cleaning machines.
glupson
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geoffkait,

I doubt oxygen is carcinogenic. It is toxic on some other levels, but that is a different topic (think of Stevie Wonder and similar issues). I just noticed that dweller mentioned O2 while you were responding about O3, including about possible carcinogenic effects of it. That is all. I suspect that dweller’s/Harry Pearson’s point was also O3, but I thought I would ask. It has nothing to do with dust covers, no matter how hard we try to make it all very smart, but once it is discussed why not clarify.
glupson
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"Just a good memory -article from the 1990’s (HP specifically mentioned the "O2" emissions linked to cancer.)."


dweller,

Do you remember if that was really about O2 or maybe about ozone (O3)? Maybe, that is the misunderstanding part. geoffkait’s response was regarding ozone, not O2.
glupson
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geoffkait,

Is "you" dweller and "Harry" Harry Pearson?

glupson
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"It was concluded that ozone is not a lung carcinogen in strain A/J mice at those exposure levels. Moreover, this mouse strain appears to be particularly resistant towards chronic ozone toxicity."

It has nothing to do with covering the turntable mat, but as Harry Pearson was quoted and he has no means of explaining what he meant, it may be fair to emphasize a few things. The study may be correct only for those mice and for those exposure levels. It also mentions that the strain of mice may be particularly resistant towards unwanted ozone action. Both of those statements leave the possibility open that Harry Pearson was correct when talking about humans and/or longer exposure.


Interestingly enough, quick search on PubMed does not yield any recent work on ozone and cancer. All we seem to have is one study done twenty years ago in mice that appeared to be particularly resistant to begin with.


I suggest that "carcinogenic tendency of ozone" debate in the thread about covering the turntable mat ends with no clear winner.

glupson
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Positive ions, in excess, may not be good for your health, but neither will negative be. It is all about balance and your body tries hard to maintain it. As far as impact on sound goes, these explanations are fun to read.
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