Static Electricity

[jordak]

Yeh it happens to me occasionally but somehow I've managed to just put up of the intense pain

I just thought it had something to do with my electric personality

[ZAP]

I am also a highly charged guy.

When I get to the office, I out my wedding ring near the metal door jam and get a 1" spark every day. I use the ring to earth myself out whenever I am near anything metal.

I seem to charge up easily, I think it has tot do with my clothing, the office caret and the dry air in the office. My car does not shock me much, its mainly door handles.

The worst is a spark off the nipple...OUCH

[Paradoxx]

The main issue with cars is when you drive around the air moving past the body of the car strips electrons from the metal, making the body of the car negatively charged. Because you are rolling on tyres there is a potential difference between the earth and the car. If you complete a path to ground you will basically allow this charge to equalise (if you are not wearing rubber soled shoes, this will happen every time you touch the car after getting out of it).

It actually doesnt have anything to do with your body building up charge, because you earth that immediately when you step out of the car.

As stated above you can minimise the pain felt by increasing the surface area of contact with the car (ie your whole hand instead of just a finger) or you can get one of those grandpa strips to earth the car. You could also make sure you are wearing rubber soled shows (most are plastic soled). I often use my whole arm to close the door to increase the surface area.

This is the main reason you need to earth aircraft thoroughly before refuelling as the sparks created can be 10's of thousands of volts which when mixed with fuel vapour would make for a nice bonfire.

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  Macktheknife said:

Might as well talk to tha freakin wall.....

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Is it metal?

[XR06T]

I tried to trick it by closing it by the glass a few times but its just gets worse when you forget to do it

goddam plastic soles.

[XR68UZ]

planes are worse, especially when you have to go to the toilet

[mickey_gee]

Im having flashbacks of the movie Office space. The guy removes the handels on the door at work. I got shocked when I touched the door handels at work all the time so I put packing tape on the ones I regularly go through.

My workmates applauded my solution after I had a tantrum and threatened to remove all the handels....

MG

[wicksy]

lol, I hate it, zap how much does the nipple hurt?

[TURBOXR]

I like to think that its just the car getting back at me for THRASHING THE sh*t out of her.

[veczar]

Ill try your method. No other car I know zaps me like my BA does!