static electricity in powder

[Pelago]

anyone ever notice a static electricity sometimes affecting powder dump??

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[Levisdad]

Yes, at times. What is the cure?

[John Kepler]

Yes, at times. What is the cure?

Soap! Remove the powder tube and dip it in a dish-soap solution (nothing special, just make like you're washing the dinner dishes!), and allow it to dry without wiping. You're done....static is gone for at least a year!

"Better things for better living through chemistry!"

[Jim Tarleton]

John,

How in the world did you figure that one out?

Jim

[John Kepler]

John,

How in the world did you figure that one out?

Jim

Couple-three technical degrees, six years in hydrometallurgical R&D, 30 years as an industrial field engineer! It's actually fairly simple chem...surfactants (soap) generally are molecules with a carbon on one end and a hydrogen on the other...in this case the carbon attaches to the plastic, the unattached hydrogen bleeds off any stray electrons just like a lightening rod. The result is that a static charge can't build up!

[MEHavey]

Try also wiping a laundry dryer anti-static/cling-free cloth on the outside of the tube (or even better, poke/pull a piece through/out the inside of the tube.)

[Tired Retired]

Geez, you sound just like my 7th grader!!!! No wonder I can't seem to help her with her math homework!

[John Kepler]

You know a 7th Grader that's been a Field Engineer for 30 years?

[Bob S]

... it's also in one of my old Lyman reloading books.

Resp'y,
Bob S.

[Old Schoolr]

You know a 7th Grader that's been a Field Engineer for 30 years?

In the drafting room it used to be pretty common to have a new hire show up w/ 10 more years experience than they were old. That 7th grader puts that record to shame.