Static Electricity in reloading area

If I can set off 40 gr of CFE in a Lapau 308 palma case necked down to 260 with a CCI 450 magnum small rifle primer, but I can't set off 42 gr with that primer, then I am not too worried about static electricity with gun powder.

I could be wrong, but I have been practicing at guessing. I am getting good at guessing my guess correctness ratio. Feynman says the first step of scientific method is guessing. The few scientists willing to speak with me have been yelling at me that step two is formalize the hypothesis. Like a teen girl in the 60s, I know I my reputation is safer if I never get past first base.

What to do about static?
I do the same thing for static, lightning, and EMP. I use resistors, capacitors, diodes, transorbs, and sometimes an inductor, but usually not.

How do I make static? Get on a plane, fly from Seattle to New Jersey in the winter time. Check into a hotel with wall to wall carpeting. Hold a car key my hand and drag my shoes. When I touch someone with the key, they get shocked. New cars don't have keys? How can I keep up with all these changes?
 
I have a plywood top on my reloading bench, and my electrinics bench.
Simply spray painted it with an anti-static paint.
Sherwin-Willams and I think it was Krylon.
This was only on the latest benches...

No carpet in the reloading area!

No problems with static in 40 years...

Simply answering how to stop static (grounding) as per the OP's question.
 
Electronics assemblers are required to wear a ground strap to protect the electronics from static when they handle diodes that cannot be hurt with 1000 Amps for 1 ms.

If your body wrecked that diode with static, it would not be an open casket funeral.

Industry standards for static electricity are so Draconian they make load books look good.
 
Electronics bench has grounding lug, never needed a grounding lug on the reloading bench, just anti-static spray when things get 'Clingie'...
 
I was helping a defibrillator company with electro magnetic interference [EMI] problems 20 years ago. There would not have been a problem in metal chassis with a few small capacitors to the chassis, but for aesthetic reasons they needed and injection molded plastic chassis that had the style of the day.

I could send the chassis out [to a painting subcontractor] for a conductive paint job. It just made the insides look brown. The problem I have was how I was going to connect to the paint in a way that would last long term. The firemen were grabbing these defibrillators and running into emergencies with them. I tried crazy stuff like a long coil spring with a high spring index ratio [coil diameter divided by wire diameter] that pinched into the paint at many points when the case was closed. It might be easier for the slower static problem, as we could have higher inductance path.
 
For whatever reason plastic does the static electricity thing , remember the comb run through your hair and how it picks up bits of paper ?

I found an aluminum funnel....no static electricity what so ever !
Get a small one for powder into cases and a larger one for pouring powder back into the canister. No sticking , no sparks and they flow free.

Gary
 
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