IC storage / anti-static foam

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun Nov 30 15:19:49 CST 2014


On 11/30/2014 12:59 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:

> The worst offenders of all have been the "Highest quality" and most
> expensive of the foams.

The cheapest variety of this stuff (and the least subject to 
degradation) for me has been polystyrene foam painted with some sort of 
black conductive paint.

I recall that expensive DIPs were sometimes shipped with a molded rubber 
retainer that also protected the pins.

Tubes are good, however.

--Chuck




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