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From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Details on the Static Discharge that Totaled '03
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Posted for Mark Steitle <msteitle@mail.utexas.edu>:

When building my wings I tried to find out what others had done, even talked 
to Tony Bingelis about it.  Here's what I did.  While installing the filler 
cap flanges, I installed some SS mesh, formed into a cup shape, on the inside 
of the fuel flanges.  These were then tied to the vent tube leading out to the 
wing tips.  From there I have a ground wires tied into the engine ground.  A 
ground clip to the exhaust will ground (and hopefully discharge any static 
buildup) when refueling.  Is this a belt and suspenders approach?  Maybe so. 
  Then again, maybe not.

Mark S.