Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #28007
From: Jeff Peterson <jeffreyb.peterson@gmail.com>
Sender: Marvin Kaye <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: re: static wicks
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:44:24 -0500
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
>Gerard,
>
>Static wicks on an insulator constructed of glass?
>
>That might be okay if you bonded everything metallic together, then to
>ground, then to each static wick.
>
>Anyone out there do this?

I put wicks on my 360.

I made my own wicks by drilling a hole on the axis of a brass 4-40 screw. I then glued in a carbon fiber bundle with silver epoxy.
Put heat shrink over the whole length. The carbon is meant to be sacrificial. It dissipates any minor strike
by evaporating.

Made a bunch of spares.

The wicks screw into threaded sockets made of 1/8" diam brass rod.  I crimped
a wire into the other end of each socket and brought these to the
engine ground.
I hysoled the sockets in place at various points on the tail and wing tips



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Jeff Peterson
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