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I need to ship a hard drive in a couple of days and am out of anti-static bags. Anyone know of any common household item that can be used as a substitute?

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Hey, all. Since there were conflicting answers on the aluminum foil suggestion, I did a bit of poking around and discovered that Staples has anti-static bubble wrap -- http://www.staples.com/Staples-Anti-Stat... . Not the zero cost solution I was hoping for, but not too expensive and it should last me pretty much forever.

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Look for pink bubble wrap. Anti-static bags are usually plastic (PET) and have a distinctive color (silvery for Metallised film, pink or black for polyethylene). The polyethylene variant may also take the form of foam or bubble wrap, either as sheets or bags. Because of the need for protection against mechanical damage as well as electrostatic damage, layers of protection are often used; because of this, you might find:

The protected device packaged inside a metalized PET film bag

Packed inside a pink polyethylene bubble-wrap bag

Packed inside a rigid black polyethylene box lined with pink poly foam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antistatic_...

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Some vacuum bags and a few types of vinyl gloves are anti-static.

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Aluminium foil

even off a bar off chocolate will do the job

Aluminum foil won't give you complete anti-static like a bag will. It'll work a little bit, but you may as well be putting it in a garbage bag.

rab777hp,

I would have thought the foil would be more conductive than the anti static bag? More worried it may short something out (well on a drive there is less chance) or that parts rip off and stay with the PCB

Spikey2,

that too- good catch spikey

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I have always used newspaper to set my electronics boards down on and even turn them on. Newspaper does not conduct electricity. I am not sure as far as its antistatic and shipping properties, though. Maybe someone else has had this experience as well?

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we are specialize in manufacturing various antistatic packaging bags .please contact me for detais

Now this is the way to SPAM. You forgot to put a link to yourself in your profile.

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