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xoxoxoBruce · 02-15-2009, 07:10 PM

Most vacuum cleaners have a rubber/plastic hose and a rubber plastic nozzle, with a metal tube in between. Static electricity will build up a charge on that metal pipe and can't bleed off because of the rubber/plastic. I've been zapped by that charge more than once. I would suppose that charge could zap a grounded PC part, but don't know if damage would result, or it would just travel the surface to find a ground.

02-15-2009, 07:10 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Most vacuum cleaners have a rubber/plastic hose and a rubber plastic nozzle, with a metal tube in between. Static electricity will build up a charge on that metal pipe and can't bleed off because of the rubber/plastic. I've been zapped by that charge more than once. I would suppose that charge could zap a grounded PC part, but don't know if damage would result, or it would just travel the surface to find a ground. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.