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

[Eric Wood]

I've just always reused the ESD bags that I get with kits; those must be inexpensive?

> On Mar 11, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Andre Majorel <aym-htnys at teaser.fr> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-03-11 11:00 +0100, cheater00 cheater00 wrote:
>> 
>> I've finally carved out enough space, time, and money to set up an
>> electronics lab, and so I'm looking for something to store parts. A
>> nice drawer wall would be nice. The cheapest I can find is hundreds of
>> dollars or euro for a tiny rack. That's pretty crazy for a bunch of
>> plastic... I understand the necessity of tight control for a heart
>> pacer manufacturer, but I'm just not the target market here. Where do
>> I find something like this inexpensively?
> 
> I've stuck TTL ICs into little pieces of black foam kept in
> ordinary plastic drawers but I'd be hesitant to do that for
> CMOS. Now, I keep ICs in wooden drawers, in foam or tubes cut to
> size. Wood might be an insulator but it doesn't seem to be as
> prone to build-up of electrostatic charge as untreated plastic.
> (Talking about plywood and solid wood here, not melamine-covered
> particle board.)
> 
> http://www.vermason.co.uk/ have anti-static cardboard boxes.
> Maybe they're cheap enough for you.
> 
>> Speaking of which, what plastics are ESD safe? A table here
>> says that plastics that are filled with carbon powder or fiber
>> are fine. But it's a bit confusing, saying the same kinds of
>> plastics are also conductive:
>> 
>> http://www.plasticsintl.com/esd.htm
>> 
>> Is there any popular kind of plastic i could search for to know the
>> vessels are dissipative?
> 
> Most plastics are excellent insulators so anything but
> dissipative. I'm guessing that the "least bad" would probably be
> polyamide aka nylon as it's so hygroscopic. I seriously doubt
> that it would come anywhere near "dissipative", though.
> 
> -- 
> André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
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