EPROM Erasers?

[jim]

Doc Shipley wrote:

> <snip>
>   And every eraser I've seen on a professional's bench had either bare 
> metal or a sheet of mylar on the floor.
>
>   I just got a Data IO 29B from a friend, so I asked the guys at MC 
> Howard where to get a good cheap eraser. Mel just said "Barber 
> Supply".  He says for hobby work, the barbers' UV sterilizers work great.

I'd watch that whatever the pins set on is conductive.  I think you can 
get some static effects if you don't have conductive materials in the 
thing.  I had one that was made in a black plastic bread box, and it had 
conductive foam to park the parts in. 

If you get a unit that isn't an eraser as suggested in other parts of 
the thread that is all I'd watch.  Make sure that the other units have 
metal to set the parts on, since a barber shop sterilizer may have glass 
or such, and not metal.

Jim