[sdiy] OT: Where to get cheap ESD safe electronics parts drawers?

[Tony K]

I just leave everything in their original packaging and file in those cheap plastic filing cabinets.

I have been using that black eprom storage conductive foam for static sensitive parts for years with bi problems. Radio shack used to sell these and of course digital drum machines eproms came with them. Don't ask me where to get that stuff today. Yes it was conductive I measured it!

Maybe you can get a big piece and line the bottom of a standard parts drawers with it? 

Now everything comes in that anti-static pink foam - but not conductive.
I never quite understood which was better. Never blew a part but then again I always wore a wrist strap when handling ics and touched the ground on my scope.

Tony K

> On Mar 11, 2017, at 8:51 AM, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 11 Mar 2017, cheater00 cheater00 wrote:
>> have to do once only. So if you see a rack that's not advertised as
>> ESD safe, but you know it's made out of plastic that is dissipative,
>> that's fine too. Speaking of which, what plastics are ESD safe? A
> 
> Basically no plastics are ESD safe unless they're specifically made to be.
> Electrical conductivity is not a common property of plastics at all, quite
> the contrary; you're not going to find plastic items that just happen to
> be conductive at random.
> 
> I'm pleased with the stacking antistatic bins I bought from Uline
> (uline.ca, they also have a US site) but those aren't very cheap.
> -- 
> Matthew Skala
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