[rescue] good spring cleaning

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Mon Aug 4 11:48:29 CDT 2003


On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 12:29 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> It's marketing bullshit.  How's air in a *metal can* going to hold a
> static charge?
>

It's the particles that hold the charge.  We have special anti-static 
vacuum cleaners for computer equipment that are designed not to build 
up a charge on the nozzle as particles fly past.  The crevice tools on 
traditional vacuum cleaners build up a lot of charge.

Andrew



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