>>  (Hot tip: use an anti-static floor-wax on your plastics 
>> and you
>>  shouldn't have to ever treat them again! Just dip your 
>> plastic bins and
>>  trays in. Then let them drip drain and dry. Think of the 
>> antistatic
>>  floor wax as an almost permanent spray.

I maent to add - antistatic sprays that are meant to make 
conditoons acceptable for people may well not reduce ESD to 
the level that works OK for all components. The general 
consensus in years gone by [tm] was that they were not good 
enough.

> How are you going to prove it works though? More to the 
> point, how are
> you going to prove it's still working if it ever did?

A foil electrometer / electroscope is cheap and easy to make 
(and maybe even to buy) and will give a good idea if ESD 
protection is working.

OR here's a FET electroscope that can be adapted. Cheap and 
easy

        http://www.eskimo.com/~billb/emotor/chargdet.html

    http://www.nfinity.com/~exile/electro.htm

    http://www.mos.org/sln/toe/simpleelectroscope.html

$17 - out of stock

    http://www.physlink.com/estore/cart/GoldFoilElectroscope.cfm

$32

   http://wardsci.com/product.asp?pn=IG0008328&bhcd2=1210072291




        Russell


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