Whyground your boots?

[Dunc]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SJ11hj2Xivk shows a method to add a copper rivet to each workboot. Fine, easy to do.

But why? Wouldn't you want your boots to isolate you from ground to avoid an electric shock?

[The Metal Butcher]

Static discharge for sensative components or fire risk. Match your boots to the environmental dangers.

[A.K. Boomer]

I'll say what my Dad used to say to us kids when we encountered something like this ---- "musta been drugs fella's" and then "say a little payer for the man"....

[A.K. Boomer]

Static discharge for sensative components or fire risk. Match your boots to the environmental dangers.

That maybe viable --- there's a semi-local guy that has copper laced sheets and bed and wires running from it to outside and attached to a grounding rod, yeah that's pushing it a little too far and good chance of getting toasted in a lightening storm lol

[Richard P Wilson]

Give it about a week of walking around on hard surfaces and the end of the rivet with the washer will wear off, leaving you with a leaky shoe---.

There was a fad, when I was a child in the 1950s for drivers to earth their cars by hanging a chain from the exhaust pipe to touch the ground. Supposed to earth any static build up. I did have one car, a Ford Sierra, which got static build up, and would give you a shock when you touched the door handle.

[MaxHeadRoom]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SJ11hj2Xivk

But why? Wouldn't you want your boots to isolate you from ground to avoid an electric shock?

If you want to get a job on the Railroad, you need to be a good conductor! 😁
Yeah, I can hear the groans !

[Noitoen]

Don't forget the tinfoil hat

[rdfeil]

If you want to get a job on the Railroad, you need to be a good conductor! 😁
Yeah, I can hear the groans !

MaxHeadRoom your potential as a comic needs a lot of transformation.

Yea, just shoot me....

[jmm03]

how do you attach copper rivets to a tinfoil hat? won't that promote a reaction of dissimilar metals?

[RMinMN]

I wear boots with steel screws in the soles. It helps keep my butt from being grounded when I walk on the ice covered roads. Having fallen twice last winter I don't care to do that again. I use 1/2 inch sheet metal screws with hex heads as the heads dig into the ice.

[Noitoen]

how do you attach copper rivets to a tinfoil hat? won't that promote a reaction of dissimilar metals?

Which is needed to create the battery to power the encabulator

[Baz]

For static discharge protection you should use a 1meg resistor in series, not a direct ground. Standard ESD practice. In labs and factories doing sensitive electronics work teh earthing straps supplied for shoes are not copper but resistive carbon loaded plastic.
The strap or chain earthing a car was not silly or a fad but a help for some people who become car sick from static build up. More recently tyres are so heavily loaded with carbon they earth the car even though the reason fro doing it is to reduce the rubber content to increase profits.

[polaraligned]

This is not for ESD. This is some idiot looking for ignorant viewers to scratch their floors up.

[Guido]

Worked one summer in Idaho forests, where calk boots were optional footwear in the bars of Boville, but not Moscow.’

[Glug]

Always be prepared for the 8th dimension.