Subject: Terrain

Has anyone got experience with using the acyrlic/fibre grass
flocking that is used on professional terrain such as TSS.

I have a bag full of it but can't get it to stad up as on the pro tiles.

Tim Jones    Adaptive Broadband Ltd.

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You need to use an electro static generator to make the grass stand up, that
or a large fuzzy dog or cat and a rubber comb!!
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This is the stuff known as 'static grass', right? You're supposed to 'blow
across until it stands up'?

I always wondered if you shouldn't wait for a really low humidity day or deep
winter in a house without a humidifier...

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Stupid question but has anyone tried a baloon rubbed on the head to generate
static, then putting it near the grass to raise it? As I said, probably a
stupid question.

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> Stupid question but has anyone tried a baloon rubbed on the head to

Not stupid at all; I'd say brilliant!

In message <OFDDD3C0F3.4F14BF99-ON86256A3B.005AD709@uneb.edu>,
devans@uneb.edu writes:
> This is the stuff known as 'static grass', right? You're supposed to

It's called "static grass" because the material can hold a static
charge.  There are squeeze-bulb applicators designed to impart a
charge on the charge as it is applied to help it stand up. I don't worry about
it much, although I do follow a tip I read and keep the part I'm using in a
covered plastic bowl and shake and stir it to help try and charge it.

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It's called "static grass" because the material can hold a static
charge.  There are squeeze-bulb applicators designed to impart a
charge on the charge as it is applied to help it stand up. I don't worry about
it much, although I do follow a tip I read and keep the part I'm using in a
covered plastic bowl and shake and stir it to help try and charge it.

I have considered the charged balloon myself, but never tried it.
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I understood about the static part, but never understood how 'blowing' would
work well given your breath tends towards high humidity, the bane of static
charges. The squeeze bulb makes sense, then. Thanks for clearing up
decades of confusion. ;->=

It's actually strong enough to pull the 'threads' out of whatever you're using
to 'glue' to the surface?

As to the other idea, I started to say 'brilliant!' then began to worry about
the high static item just attracting the chaff, to which you're attempting to
impart a charge, but I've never experimented, so all I'm going on is an
imagined image of hairy balloon.

In message <OFA3451C5F.32DFF044-ON86256A3B.006594C3@uneb.edu>,
devans@uneb.edu writes:
> I understood about the static part, but never understood how

I don't know, but it does work. My WAG is the breath stands in up, and then
the static charge keeps it up.

> It's actually strong enough to pull the 'threads' out of whatever

Yes. Like I said, it does work. Perhaps a true static applicator or

Just don't breathe in, its the major component for "Grey Lung"!

KR

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That could work, but I wouldn't go out afterwards - the ultimate "Bad
Hair
Day"!!

KR

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G'day guys,

I've tried (and seen others try) waving it right up close in front of the
TV - rubbing it on the cat didn't work ;)

Still think I'll have to use it as an excuse to get a Vandergraf generator in
the house;)