[Elecraft] easy source of static dissipating work mat?

[Jerry Flanders]

At 07:59 AM 12/12/2008, Don Nelson wrote:

>The K3 kit has two sub assemblies that come in large conducting plastic
>bags. I used these bags for an antistatic mat. I put these bags down on the
>work bench overlapping to provide a good conducting surface. If you want you
>can cut open two sides of each bag and fold open the bag to double the
>covered surface.
>
>Don

I don't understand how that material is supposed to function, but I 
tested a piece of it (may have been from some other source) and found 
that it was not conductive, at least as far as my DVM could measure. 
I concluded that I could not trust it to drain off any static charge 
from a workpiece - wrong?

Jerry W4UK