Corn Moving Question

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Since I can't look back on I burn Corn for my answer I will see if I have any hard core burners here to answer my question.

Just finished installing my corn vac in the house after relocating my whole setup. I have a lot shorter run then I had in my previous house to suck the corn, but seem to have static electricity a lot worse then before. Does anyone have a good idea how to ground a system like this. Can I just run a wire through the pipe and ground it to my cold water line, or do I need to run it outside the pipe and run screws into the pipe?

Thanks in advance for the help.
 
sting, and some of the other corn burners have posted here, so hang tite, and i am sure they will help you out,

mike
 
Get a erly sized pipe grounding clamp. Any electrical or plumbing supply house should have it.
It'll have a terminal to attach the wire & fasteners to tighten it securely...
 
I'm not a corn burner, but speaking from an electrician's stand point. I think you could get away with a bare copper wire on the outside of the pipe and attach it with an aluminum tape or something else conductive and bond it to your h2o pipe (if that is where your electrical system is grounded). I can't imagine screws through the pipe would be good for the corn transport, wouldn't that pose a clogging point/issue?
 
Woodporn is correct, I used bare copper wire and wrapped it around my hose and fastened it with electrical tape, on solid pvc pipe I ran a screw throught the pipe and used washers to hold the wire in place. I then grounded it to my water well pump grounding rod. Corn runs through it well. I can empty a 55 gallon drum in about 20 minutes. The screws I used were only long enough to penetrate the pipe so they were only maybe 1/8 inch into the pipe.
 
The early wisdom is that the screws help to discharge static built up INSIDE the pipe. For practical purposes, most people have found that it suffices to ground only the outside of the pipe. Others have reported best success using metal EMT pipe to convey the corn.

Corny
 
Corny

I see your sporting the holiday AVATAR early this year!
 
Hi Sting. I begin each heating season sporting a new hat. This year, it is a toque: Canadian-made, of course. At Christmastime, my shirt will change to red. If you bring back the sassy duck, I'll make the toque blue for the time being. ;-P .
 
You could try to use a bolt and nut with a round head. Put the round head on the inside of the pipe to reduce the area of restriction. Just drill a larger hole on the opposite side, slide the bolt through, connect to a wire on the outside, ground to a water pipe. Then cover the hole with a small section of extra pipe cut to overlap the hole and then duct taped or glued in place.
 
Corny said:
Hi Sting. I begin each heating season sporting a new hat. This year, it is a toque: Canadian-made, of course. At Christmastime, my shirt will change to red. If you bring back the sassy duck, I'll make the toque blue for the time being. ;-P .
Click to expand...

Its not as ez to switch them on these pages -- or at least not for me

and I sort of like this one -- it has some sentimental value
 
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I really have not touched it since yesterday morning

it changed and changed back after that all on its own good time

>??
 
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