"Bruce L. Bergman" wrote in message
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| Silly Wild-ass Guess Idea #1: Try putting a few water misting heads
| (like they use on outdoor patios) spraying into the inlet airflow?
| Add just enough moisture to cool off hot bits going in (without making
| mud) and the moisture should cut the static electricity levels. Link
| the mist water solenoid to the fan motor contactor, so they run with
| the fan motor.

That seemed like a good idea for a minute until I realized that moisture
and metal equals corrosion, and being that there's so much surface area
it'll corrode really fast. Piles of damp metal powder corroding quickly
gets really hot, and if not cooled down will go into meltdown, then possibly
fire, which would be a then be a real mother to put out.
Now if you had a non-reactive coolant, that might be another story.
Metal damp with anything might not get so much from the scrap yard as dry
stuff, though.