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Re: static shock

To: john nolon <jniolon@WANS.NET>
Subject: Re: static shock
From: dms@scheidt.chem.nd.edu
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2002 22:21:03 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, john nolon wrote:

> 
> ok oldtimers...
> 
> remember back in the '50s and '60s... you used to see those rubber static
> electricity ground straps on cars... my question.. did they really work ??
> 
> I get out of my wife's car and reach to close the door and it strikes an arch
> like a flashbulb going off... must be my silk underwear ???? but it's dang
> agrevating... got any suggestions ???


It's a tire problem.  Some tires are much worse than others;  it's something 
to do with how the tire rubber is compounded.  One trick I've learned is to 
hold on to the metal door frame while getting out of the car.  that way the 
shock is through the shoe, or just gradually disipated.  The rubber ground 
straps are still available, though I'm not sure where from.  They're not just
rubber; they have wires  running through them that do the actual grounding.


David

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