Can a human hair lead electric current?

[rogart63]

Had a omega lcd that lost a lot of time over a few days. Decided to take it apart and see how it looked. I found a little hair inside the electronics. Could that have caused the problem with the slowing watch? I have put it together again and will check it over the next few days to see how it goes: 

[Geo]

I wouldn't have thought it would have caused a problem Roger, but I'm sure you will enlighten us know in the next few days.

[Vich]

It was probably under different conditions but Thomas Edison tried out human hair as a filament in his electric light bulb experiments. However, whereas we all know it can hold a static charge from the Van de Graf back at school (way back in my case) I am siding with George on this one. Good fun question though and I am keen to know the result. If it is as I suspect non conductive ( unless wet of course ) could it have interfered with the current flow in some way, I am presuming it was a new battery.

Cheers,

Vic

[anilv]

The hair indicates that someone was in there before and that someone was not too particular about keeping things clean.

It could be he was not the cause of the problem but who knows? 

Anil

[Alastair]

Possible--IF it was in contact with any of the Quartz Crystal Oscillator connections/parts it could conceivably cause a slight shift in oscillator frequency--giving a loss in timekeeping....

[rogart63]

It's the same problem with the watch as before i removed the hair.  So i guess the answer is no? 

To bad as it would have been a great and easy repair? And i wrote human hair? Could very well be a cat or dog hair? Or ........... ?

[dadistic]

2 hours ago, rogart63 said:

It's the same problem with the watch as before i removed the hair.  So i guess the answer is no? 

To bad as it would have been a great and easy repair? And i wrote human hair? Could very well be a cat or dog hair? Or ........... ?

Bear Hair!