polyethylene????

[cornflake]

Does anyone know if polyethylene is static safe enough for motherboard work? I was tinkering around with some ideas for making a cheep but useful motherboard holder for recaping. I have this polyethylene tubing used to insulate hot water pipes. It comes in tubes with a slit down it's length that snaps nicely over the pipe. It seems to me it could snap just as nicely around the edges of a motherboard to protect it while being held by whatever is being used to hold it up without getting in the way of the work... If it isn't a static hazard that is...

any ideas?

[Logistics]

Re: polyethylene????

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[Logistics]

Re: polyethylene????

Hint: Polyethylene is a dielectric.

[willawake]

Re: polyethylene????

can you cut the new members a little more slack please

[999999999]

Re: polyethylene????

While polyethylene is a reasonably good insulator, that's somewhat the opposite of what one wants to prevent ESD damage. For example, polyethylene ESD protective bags are forumulated to conduct, the polyethylene is just a convenient way to make a bag that still needs some megaohn range conduction.

You wouldn't want to slide the material across the board, it may generate a charge in that case. snapping it onto the edge of a board probably won't generate any charge enough to matter.

[Fizzycapola]

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can you cut the new members a little more slack please

Indeed. Agree. Sometimes people don't like to be made fools of for simply asking honest questions, because you know 16 bytes of information doesn't mean someone else used their 16 bytes of storage for the same thing.

Cool text picture Logistics.

As I remember I usually put things straight into cases and then decide next phase, maybe plain old desks are best, special equipment who has time for it, plain white bottom of the range non coated 80gsm paper has done me ok so far also.

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