I am just starting out in reloading after a 10-year hiatus and am having to relearn everything. While working up a load today I noticed that individual powder granules were clinging to the sides of my brass B&M charge tube and the plastic powder funnel. This causes a slowdown while I knock the granules off the sides.

Question: Is there anything I can do to eliminate this static electricity? Would one of the clothing static sprays work w/o contaminating the powder? Thanks in advance.

A drier sheet works and washing with dish soap is another possible cure. The powder will stop sticking after the parts become well coated with graphite from the powder and some will run a 1/2 a can or so of powder through a new measure to "break" it in.

Try mounting a small metal plate on the bench and attach a 8 gauge wire with a bolt securly. Then run the wire to a stake about 3 ft long and drive the stake in the ground. Then all you gotta do is touch the brass to the metal plate and it will ground it and all charges will be removed...

I work with Fuels in the Air Force so knowing about static is an everyday sort of thing for me. You want to use a good copper wire too. Bolt it to the plate and screw the plate down tight againt the bench top.

I done this to my bench and it took me about $8 in random supplies and this method works AWESOME! Just a small 5"x5" plate on the side of my bench, a quick touch and bam any excess falls right off onto the plate and easily swept back into your hand or tub.

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A drier sheet works and washing with dish soap is another possible cure

Yup!

BUT the question remains - what generates the static in the first place? Carpeted area?

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BUT the question remains - what generates the static in the first place? Carpeted area?
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Good question...I load in my garage, with a cement floor, and get static unless I wipe down everything with drier sheet.

Living in Colorado and the normally dry atmosphere, I've learned everything creates static electricity. I've even been shocked by water when washing my hands. Absolutely outrageous!!!

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Try mounting a small metal plate on the bench and attach a 8 gauge wire with a bolt securly. Then run the wire to a stake about 3 ft long and drive the stake in the ground. Then all you gotta do is touch the brass to the metal plate and it will ground it and all charges will be removed...

My reloading room is in the basement, so I may not be able to drive a stake into the floor Is there anything else I can attach the wire to to ground the plate? I am in the same room as my fuse boxes.

You can ground to any copper, brass, iron or steel pipe which runs into the ground, such as a water or sewer pipe. I personally would not ground to a gas pipe, just in case it has some minor leak.

Water probably doesn't contain the static electricity which shocks people occasionally. The people already have the static electricity on the surface of their skin. Tpuching or nearly touching the water allows the charge to complete it's circuit. It jumps from the person to the water, which action causes the "shock" feeling.

Same thing happens after shuffling across a carpet. Touching or nearly touching a light switch or electrical outlet (or any other grounded conductor) allows the static electtricity on the person's body to leap to "ground".

Edited to add: Just noticed you say you are in the same room as your fuse box. Both fuse boxes and breaker boxes have ground wires in them. You could always attach your loading room ground wire to one of them.

I had this problem last fall when using H110 but I was using a plastic pan/funnel combo until I was over half way done reloading. Don't seem to have that problem with extruded powder. The H110 also sticks to the dispense tube of the Chargemaster.

Rad

Just wash the plastic funnel with liquid dish soap. Do not rinse the soap off . Let the funnel dry in air. when dry the funnel is ready to use. Static problems will be gone.

Lots of good suggestions here. So far, I have tried the dryer sheet method and it works fine. Thanx again!