Kilt Pin Science

[Riverkilt]

A cousin sent me a list of housewife tips...maybe because I'm a bachelor...anyway, one of them said this.

10. Reducing Static Cling
Pin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have
a clingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling when
wearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and -- ta da! --
static is gone.

So now I'm wondering if maybe kilt pins work like this too. Realized I've worn wool kilts all winter with no static problem.

We gotta have some scientists on the board that can answer that question.

Thanks,

Ron

[James MacMillan]

Ron - Now that you mention this, I have never had a static problem with the kilt. I remember in my pants days, when is was really dry out I would build up a static charge just from walking across a carpet.

Never with a kilt.....

Must have something to do with the metal of the pin acting as a ballast or shunt for the extra charge.

[ccga3359]

Ron - Now that you mention this, I have never had a static problem with the kilt. I remember in my pants days, when is was really dry out I would build up a static charge just from walking across a carpet.

Ron stated your original pre-kilt problem Jay. I wish you'd read posts fully...

Same thing works with slacks that cling when
wearing panty hose.

[mbhandy]

[SIZE=4]Same thing works with slacks that cling when
wearing panty hose.

Why would you wear panty hose with pants?????






Just to be Electrifying

MrBill

[Mike in Dayton]

I guess the pin acts like a static wire similar to those found on airplane wings.

[Highland Logan]

Now I don't wear a kilt pin, and have carpet, and have never had a static problem. I have had a problem with some man-made fabrics and cling, but never in natural fiber fabrics.

Frank

[Bugbear]

If your kilt has metal buckles, the kilt pin would make no difference in that experiment. You'll have to go read up on static charges to get the answers to the rest of the questions. Let us all become capacitors of the kilt...

[Marshal Moroni]

Ted,
You may have just hit upon a new title for yourself and perhaps others....

"Capacitor of the Kilt"

For all of us who are energized by the wearing of our kilts

Cheers,

Marshal Moroni

[Frank McGrath]

All my static is dissapated through the aluminum foil lining in my hats and shoes. It also helps keep the satelites from reading my thoughts. I wonder, should I be lining my kilts?

[Bugbear]