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I need to ship a hard drive in a couple of days and am out of anti-static bags. Anyone know of any common household item that can be used as a substitute? Hey, all. Not the zero cost solution I was hoping for, but not too expensive and it should last me pretty much forever.
Pink "anti-static" bags do not protect from static electricity. They are designed to not generate a charge themselves but they do not offer any protection.
Leland Best. I just had to read through this post to finish chuckling over how argumentative the discussion became over anti-static bags! I've been working with computers for over 30 yrs now and hardly ever use any anti-static protection for anything. Unless of course you like to rub your feet on the carpet and poke someone's nose before you start working with your boards or chips.
I've had hundreds of units mobo's, video cards, memory chips, etc. I can pick them up 10 years later, after they've been in 3 or 4 machines even, and they still work just fine. I've shipped umpteen times in bubble-wrap that was discharged by my own hand before packaging. I've stored and shipped items sandwiched between plain foam with no problems, EVER. Sure, spend the money on overpriced ESD protection if you like, and I would as well, if I needed to protect a very sensitive or pricey item like a high-end motherboard, otherwise Yes, I know 10v of electricity are enough to zap a poor 'ol microchip and that we can't even see it ourselves unless it hits around 10k v, but regardless, I've learned that discharging yourself prior to handling and working in an environment that is not conducive to building up static is all you need to concern yourselves with.
I'd love to hear any horror stories of people losing any equipment to static, cuz I have yet to hear one myself. I'm not throwing an endorsement either way, but will comment that loose chips are different then those in a circuit, manufacturers see fit to bag boards, my earlier comment was as stated related to parts from decades ago - which were many orders of magnatude less robust then today's ICs.
My experience and beliefs are very similar to what he said. Unfortunately not to many people that I ship boards to on a frequent basis feel the same way. Its more about doing everything "correctly" so that you mitigate your own liability. I mean if a customer receives an item and damages it then claims it's your fault because you didn't use an anti-static bag, well let's not give a customer any such excuses as they already have enough. I cant help but get extremely irritated at these individuals.
Show 3 more comments. Look for pink bubble wrap. Anti-static bags are usually plastic PET and have a distinctive color silvery for Metallised film, pink or black for polyethylene. The polyethylene variant may also take the form of foam or bubble wrap, either as sheets or bags.
Because of the need for protection against mechanical damage as well as electrostatic damage, layers of protection are often used; because of this, you might find:. Wikipedia says an anti-static bag is essentially a Faraday cage. Since you can make a Faraday box by covering a cardboard box with aluminum foil, it should be possible to make an anti-static enclosure by wrapping the item first in newspaper and then in aluminum foil. Then put this in a protective bag and whatever shipping protection is needed.
Antistatic bags or any antistatic surfaces fall into a strange space. The issue is like the Three Bears story with the porridge: one was too hot and one was too cold, the one in the middle was just right. Here the conductivity of the material is the factor - metal foil is just too conductive and can chafe off causing problems.
You want something in the middle just enough conductive to dissipate the static but not too conductive or insulatative. You also need to worry about the material building a static charge. In your case the newspaper would do that.
An anti-static bag has a high resistance film so that the ESD is discharged at a harmless low current. That is not what aluminum foil would do. Ted Thompson. Foil was used back before there was such a thing as astatic bags.
I had CMOS chips stored for decades on my truck that only had foil around them. Later you got foil around the chip seated in conductive foam. Plastic tubes for chips came later. I'd wrap in foil, then paper to protect the foil. Certainly better then how I've gotten PC boards off eBay just dropped in a box with packing peanuts. Note my experiences related above come from semiconductors and PC boards from the late 60s and 70s. By the 80s we were getting bags and foil was abandoned. If I had all the options before me, I'd go with the bag too.
I've never heard of an anti-static vacuum bag, why would you use one? For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Previous Next Sort by votes. May 4, 93 0 18, 1. I wanted to find a nearby store that sold anti-static supplies. Office Depot had the best selection but didn't have it all. Office Depot didn't have the gray anti-static bags or the thick CPU anti-static foam.
Office Depot had the anti-static bubble wrap, anti-static bubble bags and the thin anti-static foam. I cannot find anywhere to buy the thick CPU anti-static foam. As far as online stores, I know TigerDirect has some anti-static bags but that is the only place I know of, is there any other good places to buy the bags?
I have fount some online stores that sells anti-static supplies but they had items that were priced to high. The prices ranged from 50 to or dollars. I do not want something like that. Is there any big retail stores that has all of it at a good price? All of it means the thick anti-static CPU foam, the thin anti-static foam, the gray anti-static bags, anti-static bubble wrap and the anti-static bubble bags. As far as price goes the gray anti-static bags at TigerDirect go for like 7 dollars for a pack of The products at Office Depots were like around 20 dollars and less.
If no retail stores have it all does any online stores have it all at a good price? May 27, 17, 5 74, 2, Jul 21, 0 18, 4. How about anti-static foam at least 1 inch thick? I am not able to find an online store which can sell me just a few pieces. Well I found this the foam factory.
Does anyone know this online vendor? Is it reliable? You must log in or register to reply here. Thread starter Similar threads Forum Replies Date Question Microphone randomly emits a super loud static noise without warning?
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