Static electricity?

[electromaniac]

Hi there

I was wondering if any one had any ideas on how to make a copper tube type thing become static?

I thought of having a smaller tube inside a bigger one and the smaller one having some sort of cloth on it. Like the sort of trousers that attract dog hairs. And spinning the smaller tube inside the bigger one so that the cloth would rub against it. Would this work? :shock:

diagrap to explain!

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[bmcculla]

Do a google search on VandeGraaff generators. These devices use a moving belt to deposite charge on a metal sphear. You could use a similar method to charge your tube.

 

[electromaniac]

I have thought about them but I don’t want to zap what ever my tube touches I want it to attract hair from cloths.

 

[olly_k]

use a balloon?

 

[grrr_arrghh]

i have a vague feeling that you can't pick up hairs and that sort of thing, you could pick up the cloth, but the hair would come with it, equally, if you tried to pick up the hair, the cloth would come with it. unless you could ground the cloth but not the hair...

P.S. VandeGraaff are huge ammounts of fun, like the cartoon version of Tesla coils...

 

[electromaniac]

Theoretically because the hair is lighter that the cloths the hair should come away!

 

[electromaniac]

Come on people plz give me ideas??????? I’m desperate all my new cloths are covered in hair and I want to get them off with static electricity!!!

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Come on people plz give me ideas??????? I’m desperate all my new cloths are covered in hair and I want to get them off with static electricity!!!

Have you considered that if this worked, it would probably be commercially available?.

Static electricity wouldn't have enough pull to remove hairs from clothing, try a clothes brush 8)