Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote: As pointed out by a few, get throwaways. Tell them it's personal and they'll hold all the peanuts, foam, ESD bags, etc for you but return the favor by picking it up regularly - that's the reason they throw it away. I've taken aluminum foil for ESD bagging in a pinch, especially for DRAM chips and the like. DON'T use it on Dallas RTC chips (or the conductive black foam) as it will run the battery dead inside the chip container. I get all the green and pink peanuts I need from the local computer shop as throw aways, as well as large cartons from monitors and systems. Works great when you have a TRS-80 Model 4 to ship! Quill )mail order office supplier in IL( has some ESD items. I usually get as much as can for free so that I don't have to charge people a packing fee on items I sell direct or on ePay/eBay. I purposely post the fact that there is no packing fee as many of these shady sellers don't mention it and then sock it to the buyer. I know this from experience as a buyer as well. The worst part is that the packer they use recycles packing items just like I do and then they charge big bucks for lousy shipping. Granted I've had an odd item shipped and the reciever had to pull the styro peanuts out of the guts, but now I over bag the item and all works out great, no styro in the item shipped.

On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote: How about Dumpster Behind An Electronics Manufacturing Plant, Inc.? Look around your area for computer stores, electronics firms, etc. Usually they have a lot of anti-static bags and stuff that they've thrown away. Try a web search too. That should turn up something. Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Always being hassled by the man. Coming in 1999: Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 See http://www.vintage.org/vcf for details! [Last web site update: 11/02/98]