We've been having extremely dry weather here in So Cal and yesterday I kept getting "bit" by static as well. Haven't dropped anything, but did flinch enough to cause the piece I was working on to bounce off the nut on the end of the shaft causing a ding.
I'm thinking about taking a piece of 14g copper and connecting it to the bolt that holds my buffer to it's pedestal and clamping the other end around a cold water pipe in the garage. Not sure if the static from the wheel/shaft will make it to the buffer's main body tho.. Would the armature in the motor insulate that path??
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