Re: TC Question and Discharge Safety - Lightning from Fingers

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Original poster: "Harold Weiss" <hweiss-at-new.rr-dot-com> 

Hi All,

The shark suit is called mailite. (spell?) They also make chef's gloves out
of the stuff.  It was this original idea that they came up with the shark
suit.

David E Weiss


 > Original poster: "RIAA/MPAA's Worst Nightmare" <mike.marcum-at-zoomtown-dot-com>
 >
 > Actually Jeff was the one that offered to sell me one after I was
searching
 > for chainmail links or a shark suit on the list over a year ago (well 2
 > years now, keep forgetting it's 2004 now). If I remember correctly I was
 > asking him who the shark suit company was (couldn't find a shark suit
store
 > on the 'net) that made his tesla suit. I have to fly out there for a
 > fitting. There are cheaper ways to make a suit, but since this one has
 > already been field tested, and to a point my life depends on it...
needless
 > to say I'd rather not depend on chicken wire wrapped around me or a bulky
 > suit of 100 lb pipe and sheet metal. I was actually surprised since I
 > figured it would be considered a trade secret or something considering all
 > the research time/money spent on it.
 >