wjm (04/20/83)
Yes, plastic dust covers can build up a charge, and the attraction of the charge can reduce your vertical tracking force (unknowingly). The best way to cure it is to use a Discwasher Zerostat on the dust cover. Bill Mitchell Bell Labs - Whippany (whuxk!wjm) P.S. My apologies to readers of these notes on whuxk and any other systems who get multiple copies of these notes - somehow there is one of the BTL Holmdel systems which is sending copies back here (and perhaps duplicates to other points on the net). - wjm