staticy plastic tubs

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 --- Ray Arachelian <ray at arachelian.com> wrote: 
> David Griffith wrote:
> > This brings to mind a question:  I have lots of
> chips packaged in
> > static-safe chip tubes which are then put in
> metalized anti-static plastic
> > bags.  Is it okay to put packages like this into
> said staticy plastic
> > tubs?
> >   
> Yes.  But to be even safer, you could line the
> inside of those bins, and
> if you can, the sides and top with aluminum foil. 
> This will build
> something like a Faraday cage which will keep the
> chip tubes nice and
> safe. 
>  


err... what's a Faraday cage?


Someone I know sends disks to people (including
myself) wrapped in aluminum foil. I keep them
as he sent them, so I can tell which disks he
sent me. The only problem is after getting
them out I have a tough time getting them
back in the box because of the foil.


Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk