[Elecraft] Poor Man's ESD Mat?

[Don Wilhelm]

Ahhh, come on Henry - Surely, you can spare $20 for an anti-static mat 
to protect your $1300+++ investment in the K3 kit!

TigerDirect (www.tigerdirect.com) has their stock number ULT33122 priced 
at $19.99.  I don't know if they are available in the local store, but a 
phone call might give you that info.  I have no relationship with 
TigerDirect except as a customer - I'm just passing information along.

If you really want to go inexpensive, roll out some aluminum foil to 
keep everything at the same potential - you can even ground the foil 
with a 1 megohm resistor to the AC equipment ground that is likely found 
on every receptacle in the house.

Congratulations on receiving your K3, and Happy Building.

73,
Don W3FPR

k4tmc at aol.com wrote:
> First, don't worry, I have not started to remove anything from the ESD 
> bags.
>
> There is quite a lot of that pink antistatic bubblewrap protecting the 
> pieces of the K3 kit.  Is is possible that those could be used as a 
> static dissipating work mat?
>
> 73,
> Henry - K4TMC
>