Anti-Static strips???

[DDT]

Hi all, Does any one eles get zapped from static shock when getting out of your truck in the cold temps?

Where do I find Anti-Static strips?

I got a set from Mizter.com last winter... . they did work but had to return them because they were too short, added to the lenth and looked home made. Looking for longer ones to hook to frame.

Any ideas?

 

[JFought]

i saw a dodge with a welder in the bed with a strap touching the ground.

i am very interested as i have to much static as well.

 

[seafish]

Though I haven't put one on yet, I got mine from Amazon of all places. The ones I got were made by Goodyear and were for trucks... they were 24" long and cost about $7 each. I can't find them on Amazon anymore, though these PVC/Copper ones came up for $1. 79 each plus $3. 30 s/h, for the big sum of $5. 09 each.
They are 18" long.

Amazon.com: 2pc Car & Truck Static Electricty Discharge Grounding Straps - No More Shocks - Safer Fueling: Automotive

 

[seafish]

I kind of like the way that the ones I linked to are light enough to fly back while driving instaed of dragging on the road.
When you come to a stop they drop down and ground out.
I don't think the Goodyear ones I have would do that as they are quite heavy and only a 3/4" profile.

 

[EricBu12]

Wow what a deal!! just bought that item. . its a 2 piece so one for my truck and one for my wife's car

 

[DDT]

Last winter we had a pipeline go through thew county. all workers drove 3/4 or 1 ton trucks, all had a pair of long strips off the rear bumper. never did ask any of them were they got them at... . sure cant find any like them. They were light, in the air at road sppeds and on the ground when stopped.

The ones I used last winter were ground off by spring.

 

[BIGNASTY]

static

These are the one's that were installed on the trucks that I hauled Petrol in seems kind of redundant to me because when you load on the rack you plug in a Sculley plug to start the loading procedure that has a common ground. I guess that to much is ok also.



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[Bill Stockard]

Hi all, Does any one eles get zapped from static shock when getting out of your truck in the cold temps?

Where do I find Anti-Static strips?

I got a set from Mizter.com last winter... . they did work but had to return them because they were too short, added to the lenth and looked home made. Looking for longer ones to hook to frame.

Any ideas?

Do those really work? The static electricity is generated by the person's clothing moving on the vehicle's cloth seats and discharges to the vehicle when touching the door handle. The static charge is going from the person's body to the truck, not the other way.



On cold days when the air in the house is dry, walking across the carpet with some shoes, also creates a static charge that shocks when touching a door knob. Our house is on a concrete slab and grounded.



I don't have that problem since the seats in all our vehicles are leather.



Bill

 

[JohnBoy5]

Do those really work? The static electricity is generated by the person's clothing moving on the vehicle's cloth seats and discharges to the vehicle when touching the door handle. The static charge is going from the person's body to the truck, not the other way.

On cold days when the air in the house is dry, walking across the carpet with some shoes, also creates a static charge that shocks when touching a door knob. Our house is on a concrete slab and grounded.

I don't have that problem since the seats in all our vehicles are leather.

Bill

I am not sure if you are 100% correct about that. if you hold the door when you get out you will discharge the truck and not feel it. also when someone walks up to my truck and i dont get out it shocks them, they never slid across the seat. the static is generated form the air moving over the metal of the truck when driving and rolling friction.
edit, at night i can actually see the blue flash form the static jumping from the truck to me and i feel like my knees are going to buckle LOL

 

[Bill Stockard]

I am not sure if you are 100% correct about that. if you hold the door when you get out you will discharge the truck and not feel it. also when someone walks up to my truck and i dont get out it shocks them, they never slid across the seat. the static is generated form the air moving over the metal of the truck when driving and rolling friction.

edit, at night i can actually see the blue flash form the static jumping from the truck to me and i feel like my knees are going to buckle LOL

That's why I asked the question if grounding strips really work?



Bill

 

[JohnBoy5]

That's why I asked the question if grounding strips really work?



Bill

I will let you know I ordered the ones from amazon. I would think they would have to. If you hold Something metal before you get out and keep holding it till your foot hits the ground you won't feel a thing.

 

[BIGNASTY]

Bill I really dont know if those things work. But I did see some of the Video's from the BP disaster in Texas. I dont think that I would rather have that happen just because someone said that they dont work. I can remember when all the trucks that ran gas tankers had to be AIR START out of fear of spark from starters. Some of the safety things were just way out of control some were actually pretty good. During forest fires in CA I use to haul jet to the landing site for the copters I would pump into their truck and they actually made the refuel. But we had huge ground lugs on the truck and trailer because the fuel truck got close to the copters for what they called HOT REFUEL (no shut down) and the refuel truck came back to me to get more fuel IT CARRIED A TREMONDUS AMOUNT OF STATIC. The copter blades cutting the air caused static. I didn't like to see a BIG BLUE ARC WHEN WE GROUNDED FROM TRUCK TO GROUND AND TRUCK TO GROUND. Hope that made sense we wouldn't ground truck to truck but to a common ground in the ground.

 

[DDT]

Do those really work?

My experiance last winter... yes... it was great getting out of the truck from a hour long drive to work and not getting the crap shocked out of you.

Wife got nailed the other night (I let her get out before I did... . it is funny if its not you) So after some cuss words she looked at me... . so you ever going to put them back on?

I also noticed the truck did not have dust stuck to it with the strips. didnt have to wash near as often.

BIGNASTY... . Thanks for the link, I think I will try some of these

 

[Bill Lins]

Not that I'm OLD or anything, but I remember that back when I was a kid, fuel tankers had short pieces of chain dragging along the pavement from their back bumpers for grounding purposes.

 

[BIGNASTY]

sparks

Not that I'm OLD or anything, but I remember that back when I was a kid, fuel tankers had short pieces of chain dragging along the pavement from their back bumpers for grounding purposes.

That's scary fuel leaks have to start sometime and sparks from the dragging chain??????



Had a driver one time run over a wheel barrow that was dropped on the road at night. It tore a little hole in the pluming of the product dump valve and with the sparks form the wheel barrow ignited the fuel that was in the plumbing. He said he looked in the side view and he had two fire trails following him like on that movie Back to the Future :-laf There are two valves on the trucks one is an internal valve inside the tank compartment and one at the butterfly valve for product hose control so at the most is was only about 5 gals of fuel but enough for a PUCKER i'm sure. :-laf

 

[DDT]

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FYI, I e mailed them and still no answer. I asked the lenth and few other?, no repley.

 

[steved]

Couple things from someone who had severe static buildup...

The static straps can be had at any OTR truck/trailer place for little money (I want to remember less than $2 each)... they do work. The problem is during winter, and they will freeze to the ground and self remove the first time you move... I went through several straps and in different setups thinking one would prevent it, they all eventually froze. I went through at least a dozen straps, none last more than a few thousand miles.

I eventually changed to a piece of 1/4" steel cable (mine is vinyl coated, but not needed), soldered an eye ring terminal end on one end for connecting to the truck frame, and (using a cable clamp) made a loop around the cross member to prevent any freeze issues. It has been installed for the past 200k, requiring only periodic lengthening. It just barely touches the ground, and is swept back under the truck so that the wind more/less keeps it lifted off the asphalt during driving.

Just another option...

 

[Moe]

Big Nasty, cant get the link to work. Do you have a manufacturer?

 

[seafish]

Couple things from someone who had severe static buildup...



The static straps can be had at any OTR truck/trailer place for little money (I want to remember less than $2 each)... they do work. The problem is during winter, and they will freeze to the ground and self remove the first time you move... I went through several straps and in different setups thinking one would prevent it, they all eventually froze. I went through at least a dozen straps, none last more than a few thousand miles.



I eventually changed to a piece of 1/4" steel cable (mine is vinyl coated, but not needed), soldered an eye ring terminal end on one end for connecting to the truck frame, and (using a cable clamp) made a loop around the cross member to prevent any freeze issues. It has been installed for the past 200k, requiring only periodic lengthening. It just barely touches the ground, and is swept back under the truck so that the wind more/less keeps it lifted off the asphalt during driving.



Just another option...

Thats' a great idea!!!

 

[ringneck]

DDT pipeliners use the strips because we are working beside live lines and right of ways under high volted lines. not good with live spark.