d.sei...@comcast.net said: > The largest discharge we got was from an acrylic rod and the cat.
Clean dry wool works nicely. (I give all my old wool hiking socks to a friend who teaches physics to high school physics teachers.) I think the other key ingredient is Styrofoam. You can get good chunks as "paper" plates or fast-food containers. http://www.exo.net/~pauld/summer_institute/summer_day14electrostatic/Electroph orus.html http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/sparker.html b...@iaxs.net said: > My first job was in a blasting cap plant in 1960. There were military > devices so sensitive they could be set off by turning on a nearby > fluorescent desk lamp. Fond memories... In 1960, I was in high school. A couple of classrooms had new chairs with a plastic seat and a steel frame. They were great for generating static. I had shoes that were good insulators. I could charge up on one of the chairs and walk down the hall to the lockers and still give somebody a serious zap. The chairs had 4 big round-headed bolts that went through the seat to hold it to the frame. As the typical male was sitting down, a certain sensitive part of their anatomy was closest to the bolt. We learned quickly. I got very good at hitting a leg of the chair with my foot/ankle as I was sitting down. -- These are my opinions, not necessarily my employer's. I hate spam. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
