[sdiy] Organizing Components

[Oren Leavitt]

Agreed.
I've found ICs that I've had for 20+ years sitting in/on black crumbs, too.
Some flavors of anti-static foam do tend to stick to IC pins after 
awhile and need to cleaned off.

Oren

James Patchell wrote:

> One minor warning about the black anti static foam...it is maybe not a 
> good idea to leave parts in that for very long.  It won't hurt them, 
> but if the parts sit around in it for about 20+ years like some of my 
> old parts, it can really make a mess if it starts to decompose.  Now, 
> not all of the 20+ year old foam decomposed, but a lot of it did.  
> And, there is no way to tell what it will do until it does it.....so 
> be careful....
> At 10:28 PM 3/2/2004 -0500, Jay wrote:
>
>> on 3/2/04 10:21 PM, Scott Stites at scottnoanh at peoplepc.com wrote:
>>
>> > Careful with the non-conductive plastic drawers - sliding them 
>> open/pushing
>> > them shut makes them fairly effective static field generators (in 
>> the eyes
>> > of certain components, they may as well be Van der Graaf 
>> generators).  I
>> > don't have any qualms with using them for storing caps, resistors, 
>> nuts,
>> > bolts, screws, candy etc., but my semiconductors are kept well away 
>> from 'em
>> > as a general rule.
>>
>> Well, of course. I have plenty of anti-static bags and foam to keep the
>> sensitive parts safe.
>>
>> What about transistors? Are they fairly static proof?
>
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