Need some Anti-Static gear help.

[Timothy]

just make sure you touch the body, not the door, the door might not have a good ground

The fill is at the back of the vehicle.  If it's clean, I'll just drag my hand across both doors.  Otherwise, I open the gas fill door and lean on the car. 

Too many people in cold climates jam their gas cap into the  fill handle and get back in the car.  On occasion, the cheap carpets in cars creates a static discharge when they get out and grasp the gas nozzle which can create a catastrophe..

[PegLeg45]

Make a grounding wand to stir the grounds and you can ground yourself also.

We had a dingus for a plant manager once, and he decided to paint the entire floor under one of our extrusion presses and handling tables with epoxy paint. In the winter months, the floor gave off static (think waving an inflated balloon near your hair).... and since the aluminum was transferred over graphite and carbon beams and rollers, it took on a charge that could actually be read with a voltage meter. When the saw operators touched the metal, it shocked the heck out of them.....so, we made up grounding wands so they could discharge the metal before running it through the saw.


Don't know if this will solve your particular problem, but might be worth a try.


Go to Lowes and get a grounding plug like this:




Then get:
1. Take a length of wire (such as a section of a coat hanger).
2. A short piece of wooden dowel
3. Wire

Drill through the dowel lengthwise.
Solder one end of the coat hanger piece to the wire and the other end of the wire to the tab coming out of the bottom of plug above.
Insert the coat hanger through the dowel and secure it with epoxy.


Then there is this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ESD-Anti-Static-Earth-Bench-Mat-600-X-500mm-Includes-Euro-Grounding-Plug-Kit-/380460101519


http://www.tecratools.com/product1183.html

[Solus]

That is what I had in mind, Peg.

I'll check into the parts if TAB's fridge doesn't do the job tomorrow.  Might any way since the fridge way come close to needing 3 hands.

I looked for that plug online at Lowes and did not see it.   Grounding plug brought up 4 pages of standard 3 prong plugs.

And just to clarify your instructions,   the dowel rod would be epoxied to the plug to insure the coat hanger connection the ground lug was not pulled loose?

Thanks.

[PegLeg45]

Basically, what you would have is a metal rod with a wooden handle.... like an ice pick with a wire attached to it. Then the wire would run to the plug ground.....thus making a wand that would ground/discharge whatever you touched with it.

Technically, you could just touch the lug on the plug and be grounded.

I may be missing your needs from the original post...... I was thinking of using it to stir or touch the coffee maker and such to discharge the static as well as yourself.

[Solus]

Basically, what you would have is a metal rod with a wooden handle.... like an ice pick with a wire attached to it. Then the wire would run to the plug ground.....thus making a wand that would ground/discharge whatever you touched with it.

Technically, you could just touch the lug on the plug and be grounded.

I may be missing your needs from the original post...... I was thinking of using it to stir or touch the coffee maker and such to discharge the static as well as yourself.

got it...the coat hanger is the "stirrer" and the dowel a handle for it.

I could put an alligator clip on the other end of the wire and use that for the connection to the plug lug rather than solder if I want it to be a little bit more flexible.

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[Solus]

UPDATE: The refrigerator works!!  Thanks TAB =)

The temp went up  into the 60's here today, so I'm going to verify the good results under adverse conditions, but it seems like it works.  A bit more cumbersome than Peg's grounded stir rod, but it  works already. ( looks like)

Thanks for the suggestions.