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I was taking off the peel coat they have on Staron material. Nice plastic coat that comes off with one continuous pull. So I was standing on the CNC table and I grabbed the end of the plastic and started toward the other end.
Just so happened to be a very dry day here in California.
So about half way down the sheet, SNAP, the plastic comes in contact with my “mid section”
and I get the shock of my life. That’s right, it just about shocked me steril.Thank goodness I already have my allotment of children.
SO BE CAREFUL
When I was a kid, we would jam in my father’s shop. The lead guitarist thought it would be cool to play slide on our homemade laminate bending bar.Seeing the guitar strings glow red, expand, then burn out was truly amazing.
He never did that again, though.
Tom
During one summer in college me and a few buddies worked a swing shift at a Mobil Chemical plant that extruded styrofoam. My job had me in the reclaim room where 12 hours a shift we ground up styrofoam screw-ups. Most of the stuff came in these huge 4, 5 maybe 6 foot diameter rolls.
The static electricity was so bad the first day I felt like pavlovs friggin dog. I got shocked through the toe of a steel toe boot, I got shocked everytime I touched the work table, I got shocked everytime I got on the fork lift.
It was so bad that EVERYTIME you walked up to a metal table/object you learned to take out your razor blade (rounded tips only of course) and whacked the table to discharge the build up. Thing is, you would still do this when you got back home aftera shift, I think I did it for a few weeks after that job ran it’s course.
That can hurt! I have been hit before and you know when
there is a lot of static in the air when you see the sparks fly.Shane
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