Keep It Clean
March, 1977
Here's a musical Catch-22: Friction on a record surface builds up a static charge that attracts specks of garbage from the air. You create friction, of course, every time you slide a record in and out of its liner or jacket, and the very tracking of the record groove by the stylus creates another source of friction.Seems hopeless? Don't give up. Remember water? Mixed with tiny amounts of detergent and sometimes a minute splat of some proprietary chemical solution, it forms the bulk of all the re...
