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If you have travelled anywhere around Latin America, you may have noticed that driving in the city exposes you to a lot of ineresting things. Every traffic light will provide you with endless displays of jugglers, fire eaters, clowns, windshield washers and vendors selling everything from popcorn, beer and pork rinds to cell phone accessories, fuzzy dice and many of those other wonderful things that auto manufacturers never thought of as standard equipment. One of these is the "colita rutera". A strip of plastic that you attach to your rear bumper and it drags along the ground and is claimed to discharge static electricity and reduce the stress of the driver, improve his sex life and eliminate the risk of explosion when refuelling with the engine running. (Standard practice outside the US.) Of course, if you have a "colita rutera" turning off your engine is the least of your concerns, you are concentrating on the other benefits of this device. I have no idea if it works as static discharge, but I guess it could.. ( You will have to ask the wife about the other one she sewed onto my pajamas..) I have never seen a static discharge on the undercarriage of a plane. They have them on the wingtips though. I have been told many years ago that aircraft tires are made out a conductive synthetic rubber that discharges static on landing. Anybody tried flowing an electrical current through an old tire to see if it is true? Alan Fairclough (If this does not wake Dennis up, nothing will.) Disclaimer: The advice offered above should be taken as "straight from the horse's mouth". You may quote any of the above information, however be advised that at times it may seem like the horse is facing the other way... AF ========================================================================== ==== To leave this forum go to: http://ercoupers.com/lists.htm
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