Milty Zerostat Anti-Static Device

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 feel 1) 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.

I always wanted to get one of these. Finally broke down and got one! The cost was always my problem. When you are a teenager its like for about $100 do I buy more records? Or an expensive antistatic gun? My choice was always buy more music! So I kinda learned to live without it! I remember I had a cleaning record brush that would hold some fluid that dampened the brush from the inside so it would reduce static when sweeping off your records but sometimes you just needed something powerful like this Zerostat gun. But let me say it's worth every penny and I wish I had invested in one years ago! I recently got a new record that was so static charged that it wouldn't easily come out of the paper sleeve! It was horrible. But I used this gun with the record still in the sleeve first to loosen up some static and then once out of the sleeve I used it on both sides of the record twice and there is no static at all! What a difference! Wish I saved up my money for one of these when I was a kid. It's definitely worth having! The key is to very slowly squeeze the trigger handle in and then out again. I do both sides twice and it gets rid of all the static! I'm impressed on how well it worked! Very happy 😊 Buy one now! Don't wait till your 45 years old like I did! Lol 😂

I really wish this came with a case. If it sis it would be almost perfect.

i would highly recommend not buying this item!!!! use my roughly 5 times and the item no longer works!! i bought this item to help maintain my record collection, because i sometimes find that new pressings come with alot of static buildup on the record. This item was purchase to counter act this issue, however the other day when i went to use this item it did not appear to be removing any static build up from the album. I inserted the test device (bulb) into the end and the item is not working, however if i squeeze the trigger at a quicker rate it also doesn't work but does however produce a loud clicking noise and emits a intermittent charge through the test light. not at all how it should work. for reference, a properly functioning tool should light the test device continuously as the trigger is squeezed. This item couldn't even hold up to minimal use (less than once a month over a 6 month time period), complete junk!!!

Alors oui il est un peu cher, mais vu sa durée de vie et son efficacité, c’est un excellent investissement. Si vous ne voulez pas regarder 36 vidéos de tests et explication, voici comment bien l’utiliser sur un disque vinyle : Tenir le disque loin de tout appareil électrique. Placer le pistolet au centre du disque, à 30cm du disque (soir la hauteur d’une pochette) et presser 4 fois très lentement (ne pas entendre le "clic", sinon c'est que l'on appuie trop vite). Test du mouchoir en papier, s’il colle au disque, il reste de l'électricité statique. Il faut utiliser le pistolet sans l'embout qui sert juste à vérifier que le pistolet fonctionne car il émet une très faible lumière visible dans l'obscurité lorsqu'on appuie sur la gâchette. Evidemment, il faut le faire face par face, donc le faire avant de jouer la facer A, et refaire la face B avant de la jouer (ne pas faire les 2 en même temps, c'est beaucoup plus efficace ainsi).

High static setup, following this, static pops were gone. The thing absolutely works

Funktioniert sehr gut. Nutze die Pistole ausschließlich für Vinyl-Schallplatten. 3-4 Einheiten und die Scheibe ist Antistatisch ! Kleiner negativer Punkt ist der Preis für dieses bisschen Plastik.

Maakt hardnekkig statische vinyl platen (lp's) antistatisch en echt vrijwel altijd tikvrij

So I did a ton of research on this before pulling the trigger (no pun intended). It really works. There are no instructions included...well not beyond "point and shoot." So there are lots of videos out there of people doing it wrong. I'm sure many of those who rate this less than five out of five stars are among those. There is one simple tried and proven way to do this...and it is crazy how good it works. I got this yesterday and my crackles and pops are gone. Completely. Even listened to an album that was previously unplayable sounds news. Google "the truth behind the zerostat anti stat gun." He goes through it. But the take away is...four “blasts” from a foot away while holding record. This is far and away the best way to do it. And - key to this - is you have to go really really slow...it takes a bit to get used to. If you hear “click” when pulling or releasing the trigger you're going to fast.