Static electricity and hardened epoxy

[Quebecnewf]

When your cutting into epoxy do you by chance generate more static electricity than say wood ?

My reason for asking . Yesterday I was cutting a female pocket into the back of a clock blank I was making . Nothing that I haven’t done many times before . The cut kept failing . 30% done then errors pop up . Restart , 35 % done then disconnect . Reset then 40% done and errors again .

Stepped back and took a break . Threw on a piece of wood . Ran the same tool path . No problem . Ran perfect . Placed the clock blank back in . Ran the tool path . 52% then disconnected. Reset start again 78% errors . Start again 93% disconnected. Reset and got it finally done .

The center of this clock was mostly made up of hardened resin . I noticed the chips seem to be very ( clingy) they ( stick) to everything and appear to be static charged so that’s why I’m thinking that may have been the issue .

Any thoughts

Quebecnewf

[Spamming_Eddie]

Hey Paul,

Having worked years and years in an antistatic enviroment, where peeps need to wear neatralisi g equipment to even enter a door, I can state that wood is a static neutral material. Plastics are not and are not allowed in an antistatic enviroment.

Epoxy is pretty static and when rubbed against with the speeds you have on a spindle/router, they build up quite a charge that can cause al kind of problems.