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I am giving my friend a CPU and gfx card, he needs to travel all day tomorrow and I threw out all my bags.
What else can I use? Tin foil? Paper?
What else can I use? Tin foil? Paper?
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What can I use instead of an antistatic bag?
- Thread starter benscoobert
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I would just grab like a tea towel or perhaps ziploc bags.
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So what can i use? a ziploc bag builds static
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where is he traveling? By car, plane, hovertrain, spacecraft? as long as it's by car or something, probably just some paper might be best. Other opinions?
Also, don't use plastic cling wrap. Duh.
Also, don't use plastic cling wrap. Duh.
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By train, it has to be in his bag all day tomorrow
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Just use a tea towel or a pair of jeans or something lol. I don't think you really have to worry what it is in as long as you aren't rubbing it back and forth on carpet or something. Find a box and stick styrofoam in it. So many things you can use.
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Are you serious? Do you know what static is?
You suggested the 2 most static things in the world, plastic bags and styro..............
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get a small cardboard box the size you would wrap a watch box in for a present would be good.
put some cottonballs in the bottom of the box, a nice amount, wrap the cpu in paper and put it in the box, put some more cottonballs till box is full. put on the top tape it on. and your good .
i used this method for a 2 day trip cross country and it worked great.
same method can be applied to gcard just use wadded newspaper instead of cottonballs
put some cottonballs in the bottom of the box, a nice amount, wrap the cpu in paper and put it in the box, put some more cottonballs till box is full. put on the top tape it on. and your good .
i used this method for a 2 day trip cross country and it worked great.
same method can be applied to gcard just use wadded newspaper instead of cottonballs
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I think he's off today or he has it out for you...
For a bare CPU I put mine in a glasses case...
GPU is kind of big, so I'm not too sure what to do for that.
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thanks, i had a watch box sat in front of me........ looking me in the face
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I would suggest newspaper
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Yea, and I've used both to carry things in. Not once has it destroyed whatever I put into it. Whether that be luck or not, that's my personal experience.
And please explain to me this new concept of static, as apparently I don't know what it is.
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i CANT DECIDE IF YOU ARE JOKING OR NOT............................
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I don't think he is. To build static you have to have them actually rubbing. If they aren't, no static.
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Grrrrr Americans............
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Canadian actually.. and it's hard to get under my skin, except when people attack my intelligence.
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lol. i knew you'd bite at that, all Americans do.......... In a bag all day I think they would be rubbing, anyways its sorted now, used a watch box
