Milty 5036694022153 Zerostat 3 Anti-Static Gun, Blue

I live in the high desert of Nevada, and it is very dry here, so it makes LPs very staticky. This works like a charm. There are almost no clicks or pops. It feels like a kid's toy raygun, but if you use it like the YouTube videos show, it works just fine. I highly recommend it.

Given the chequered history of some early runs of this device, (one whose predecessor I originally bought last millennium) I've deliberately waited until mine had been in regular service for three months before granting it the above headline and that five star rating.I believe you'll find that a reading of my other reviews will confirm that my top "five star" rating is reserved EXCLUSIVELY for products that I sincerely feel1) Represent value for money,2) Wholly fulfil their intended purpose ...and...3) Satisfy their target market......with NO reservations whatsoever.While it's certainly true to say that this is NOT a cheap item, I know of no other that performs this intended role as well as it does ...and I firmly believe that the key to its relative expense lies in item (3) above, ...the small size of that highly specialised target market.Sure, there's a whole galaxy of plastic-housed mass-produced items of far greater complexity out there ...and many of them do retail for far less......BUT......any one of those others can be guaranteed to sell in the millions, if not billions, whereas how many of us indeed exist who use items that can only have their successful operation restored by "squirting" a water-pistol like device at them to remove their destructive static build-up?Worldwide?Maybe some thousands. Possibly even tens of thousands.Not millions ...and CERTAINLY not billions.Although its operation is brilliantly intuitive, it's also true to say that the supplied instructions are a bit on the "sketchy" side, but for me, that's not enough to darken my fifth star.To my mind, just about their only key omission is any mention of aligning the "viewing hole" of the supplied "testing plug" so that the glow of its neon can actually be seen to confirm that the gun's "piezo-snapping" trigger mechanism is indeed delivering the static-zapping stream of ions required.For three full months now it has been, to the point where I feel it may be many years before I'll check again, ...probably only after (and if) I may feel that the response from one of my "targets" doesn't fully correspond with the superb performance that my new Milty ZeroStat gun has delivered so far.

When I first got this, I tried the "Toilet Paper" test like I see many reviewers do. And it work as advertised. It seems to cut down on my record noise and feel it is helping. With no instructions for proper use or the over $100 USD I payed for it, makes it a 4.

I was dubious about this product. But I kept seeing people talk about this product and how fantastic it is at removing static from a record's surface. When you think about it, it makes sense too. You are dragging a diamond through a PVC groove. Think of it like a static buildup and discharge when you touch someone. You get that audible *SNAP* as the electricity arcs from one subject to another.Now think about that on the surface of a record. A record that has a lot of static charge to it is going to transfer that charge into the needle. It's also going to make a sound. Then that sound is sent through a preamp, then an amplifier and then played through speakers. You are going to hear that, no doubt about it.So using this gun on a record prior to playing is going to remove that static. Then the only thing you need to worry about when it comes to snap crackle pops is dust in the groove, and that can be brushed out.An anti-static gun is even going to help you clean your records. The static is strong enough to not only attract dust into the grooves but the static will HOLD it there.So take the record out, shoot both sides of it a few times and then place it on the platter and give it a once-over with a brush and you're golden.Is it expensive? Yes it is. But it's the most important tool you'll have in your record cleaning arsenal, for the price.

Really. I used this MAYBE 2-3 times a WEEK since November, TEN MONTHS AGO, and just last week noticed NO resistance for about the first 1/2 of the "trigger pull."It KIND of feels like it's working (aimed at the back of my hand I can FEEL the electrical/static discharge), works on records, but the mechanism doesn't fulley reset.MAN that was a pricey lesson in stuff not to buy again, ever.I owned one of these in the last 1970's that lasted maybe ten years, another I wound up selling with a TT as I sold my LPs and bought CDs in the mid 1980's, but this, THIS?Unrepairable, unwarrantied junk.Avoid.

First, why the incoherent ratings?Overall, this is the only product of its kind that I know of, and it is effective, albeit if subjectively.It is a bit pricey what what it seems to be. It is all plastic as far as one can see, but it feels solid enough. Do not drop it.But does it *do things?* Yes it does. If you put a volt meter in the area, you will definitely register a changing EMF as you gently and release the trigger. I don't have a quantitative assessment. Yet.It has but two operations: pull trigger, release trigger. You do have to do these slowly. If it clicks you went too fast. Slow and steady wins this race.Subjectively, I think this helps with playback of vinyl records on old-school turntables in the winter in a northern state. The static charge buildups are horrible in this environment, but this device does seem to help!I should like to conduct some quantitative studies. I will share them here.