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static electricity in powder
anyone ever notice a static electricity sometimes affecting powder dump??
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06-07-2009 07:22 AM
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Yes, at times. What is the cure?
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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!
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John,
How in the world did you figure that one out?
Jim
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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.)
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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!
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Geez, you sound just like my 7th grader!!!! No wonder I can't seem to help her with her math homework!
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You know a 7th Grader that's been a Field Engineer for 30 years?
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... it's also in one of my old Lyman reloading books.
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Bob S.
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