Cheap static grass applicator

[frank2056]

While making my diorama base, I needed to make the fake grass fibers stand up, like real grass. Luckily, I bought a very cheap bug zapper (shaped like a small racket) years ago, with the plan to turn it into a static grass applicator here's an example. I found an old strainer and after a few minutes, it was built. It works fairly well; the grass does stand on end. Amazingly, I have yet to shock myself:

[Andrew Gorman]

Very cool!  Thanks for posting the link.

[NARSES2]

  

[scautomoton]

This is man-in-a-shed invention at its very best

[zenrat]

Very good.  But I doubt it was as cheap as my static grass applicator which came from a chinese auction site and is very shoddily made.  Your one probably works better though.

[buzzbomb]

Great Frank I started out with one of these, using the same method. It did work quite well.

If you ever feel the need to finesse a bit and still DIY.. I built this version and it is terrific

I used 3D prints rather than the wood for parts of it

[frank2056]

That one looks great - I may try that since it looks safer. Bolder Creek railroad has a lot of cool info; I downloaded some of their STL parts years ago.

[NARSES2]

Very good.  But I doubt it was as cheap as my static grass applicator which came from a chinese auction site and is very shoddily made.  Your one probably works better though.

Yea, but yours probably spies on you and is programmed to explode when WWIII breaks out