Is it practical to run a humidifier?
Or, that might create rust problems.

I suspct better grounding of the machine is needed.

Christopher A. Young
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"Larry Kraus" wrote in message
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It's static electricity. My dad had that problem when sanding wood
pieces on a 1" Delta belt sander. It only happened in the dry air of
winter. We solved it with an anti static wrist strap like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16899261001
Slip it on your wrist, clip it to ground and you will stop sparking.