Not just gasoline. While opening a plastic quart bottle of algaecide, tearing off the little paper inner cap, my husband got a very strong electrical shock. He didn't know what to make of it but after it happened twice more in the same day, he called the chemical manufacturer who said that they were busy tracking down particular batches of this stuff. Apparently while being filled, these bottles run on a conveyer belt and tend to rotate around, building up static electricity. The belt not being grounded, stores the static within the liquid which remains there forever until someones fingers touch the foil lined paper seal which conducts it out of the bottle and through the unsuspecting person. My husband works with electricity quite a lot and has gotten "bitten" a few times but he said this was a real good jolt. So I guess static, plastic and any liquid, just don't mix! Wendy & John '85 Westy, "S-CAPE"
|
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.