5 Oct
2012
5 Oct
'12
9:57 p.m.
On Sat, 6 Oct 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/06/2012 12:04 AM, Tothwolf wrote:
That's easy to do though when you end up with lots of random "spares". :P
In these cases though, they were already damaged when I got them. I have
no idea how long they had been in the foam.
Sometimes you can still find a good deal on
smaller sections. I found a
supplier who had 12 sections of good quality conductive foam
~3.5"x4.75" for $1.00 each a few years ago and I promptly bought out
his stock. I figure that will last me a long time since these days I
mainly store ICs in tubes and then put those inside foil/mylar
antistatic bags. I've just run across too many ruined NOS ICs with
corroded pins from the conductive foam breaking down.
The key there is to not leave them in the same foam for 15+ years. ;)