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Tip: Static Electricity

Kyle Boatright

Well Known Member
Do not vacuum up micro/epoxy dust with your plastic bodied shopvac while standing on a vinyl floor wearing tennis shoes. Particularly during a period of low humidity.

Unless you need a jolt or three to correct your Atrial Fibrillation, bring Frankenstein's monster to life, or something like that...
 
This is why we always ground our A/C during fueling.

I bet your hair was standing up pretty proud before the "zap" ;-)
 
I had pulled all my carpeting out of the airplane for a good cleaning this past weekend, and had it all laid out on the wing and was vacuuming it while leaning up against the trailing edge. About every half second I could feel a small zap from my right leg where it was jumping to the airframe through the denim of my jeans, it's amazing how much static can be generated by a shop vac.
 
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