Well, if we are being pedantic then, there is an imbalance of potentials
between myself and an insulated piece of metal on the cleaner.

One can easily make this occur in other ways merely with friction and even
with the friction of air itself if its dry enough, so maybe the real answer
is to turn my house into a rain forest humidity wise where there will not be
the ability for large potentials to develop.
Damn those electrons.
With regard to the visible spectrum, which I myself cannot see, that is a
whole other story of course. I used to wind them up asking so how do you
make silver and gold colours then.
Brian

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"Graham." wrote in message
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On Sun, 4 May 2014 12:42:11 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Simple question. A Bosch cleaner, works fine has the usual convoluted
plastic pipe and a metal telescopic pipeand a plastic brush on the end.
Its
most convenient way to be held is by the plastic at the end of the
flexible
tube, but on some surfaces, the touching of the metal pipe after a few
seconds not doing so produces an audible crack and a nasty shock.
I also have a Vax which uses the same arrangement, but does not have this
added feature.. So, I know its not dangerous, and is purely static, but
there hasto be a way to make the Bosh, which is lighter, work like the Vax
which is big and cumbersome, and I do not really want it for spills of
stuff like sawdust or whatever. And no I do not make a habit of taking up
sawdust with it.
I did wonder about an inward facing corona discharge pin, or perhaps a
bare
wire that pokes out by the brush but do not want to do something which is
pointless.
Brian


It can't be static electricity if it's jumping gaps and stimulating
your nerves and muscles. I don't find the concept of static
electricity as a separate entirety particularly helpful.

I blame the primary school teachers, the same ones who insist their
are seven colours in the visible spectrum.



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