From: Randy H 

Phil Payne wrote:
> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
> news:456f581f{at}w3.nls.net...
>> In the bad old fifties here in the US, they used to sell a wide camel's
> hair
>> brush for LP records with Polonium radioactive strip attached, behind a
> spiffy
>> grille.You sent it in for refurbishment every couple of years (I forget
> the
>> half-life of PO, but it's of that magnitude).  Just like your
> Mason-Pearson.
>
> Also for de-dusting large format film negatives before enlarging.
>
>

It's called the StaticMaster, and you can still get it:

http://www.optcorp.com/product.aspx?pid=1723

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