[Elecraft] Something to discuss other than K4

[Phil Kane]

On 9/24/2020 4:21 PM, David Haines wrote:

> One of my engineer sons sent me the following link about Furniture ESD. 
> Is it for real?  Is this something else we have to worry about while
> using our new K4's?

The document said in part "The only clue to the problem was that the
malfunction seemed to be related to a person rising from a chair...."

Tell me something that I don't know.  In the 1950s (when I was first
licensed) my parents' dinette set was of the then-popular
chrome-and-vinyl construction, and every time I got up from the chair I
would get zapped in the back of my knees.  Static electricity  generated
by cloth sliding on the plastic.  I cured the problem by touching  a
table fork or spoon to the metal chair rung to discharge the spark.  I
was under the impression that this was cured by switching to an
anti-static type of plastic or fabric some time ago.

It's "great" that all that time and brain power was spent on
rediscovering the wheel. Are chrome-and-vinyl dinette sets still being sold?

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
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