Artist's Alan Wolfson dioramas at:

http://www.alanwolfson.net/sculptures.htm

I have wanted to have one of these static grass applicators for a while now and I must have googled everything there is to read about them.

When I finally got to action I choose the easiest way, the flyswatter/tea strainer version. I shorted the bleeding resistor and tried both with and without bypassed filter capacitor. But I was not happy with the result. The flock just fell down. I noticed that there was some kind of static field as the majority of fibers stood up. But not nearly enough to be a good result.

Here is a few pictrues of my steel mill. First pictures are of the Sinter Plant. The Plant was build by Jeff Borne.

Another interesting news story from the prototype world. . .

http://www.tauntongazette.com/news/business_news/x530602459/Police-investigate-theft-of-railroad-tracks-in-Taunton-today-train-derailed