Is it possible to re-seal antistatic sleeves

almoststew1990 · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:12

Basically I bought some RAM from eBay and I expected it to be second hand as it is SDR RAM. But it has come in a completely sealed anti-static sleeve thing, so could it be new? Or would it be easy to seal this up.

NoobCannon · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:14

Maybe

Vonhelmet · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:14

Random guess... the plastic is heat sealed. Could probably crimp an open one closed with some hot hair straighteners.

UnworthyBean · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:15

Possible? Yes. Theyre often just heat sealed and not hard to do.

Was it worth the seller going to that extent to sell it as new though? How much extra would they have gained.

james_2k · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:17

looks pretty well done if its been done by a random guy with hair straighteners. Dont think id risk the fury of the missus and would just tape it

mmj_uk · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:17

The jagged and wonky edge at the bottom looks dodgy tbh, if you have the means to melt the two flaps together you could do it. Even if it's second hand it's good to see that the seller has taken all precautions against static.

CREATIVE!11 · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:23

He's sealed that himself, it's easy enough to buy the stuff to do it. But at least he went above and beyond for you. I'd have just sellotaped it.

GiraffePencils · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:28

Well according to the esd training I go through with work we go by if it's not sealed it's useless.
So if they're a serious reseller they might spend the extra couple of quid and get the gear to seal it.

robfosters · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:29

Doesn't matter really. You was expecting second hand ram and may have got brand new ram. Win win.

almoststew1990 · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:31

Well I found a bit of common sense in me, and just opened the sleeve and had a look. The RAM has certainly been used as I thought. The seller was nice enough to send a matching pair of sticks though!

Semple · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:34

GiraffePencils said:
Well according to the esd training I go through with work we go by if it's not sealed it's useless.
So if they're a serious reseller they might spend the extra couple of quid and get the gear to seal it.

I don't believe in that ESD nonsense! I remember years ago at work we were trying to implement some additional monitoring on the installed DIMMs, and i had the fun task of trying to destroy some, we even had a Van De Graff generator which was great fun zapping RAM chips. However plug it back into the server, and hey presto, it still worked.

MooMoo444 · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:36

Not bad packaging to be honest. I've bought RAM previously that has come in bog roll.

mmj_uk · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:37

It might work but you could get errors, with stuff like floppy/hard disks static will cause data corruption.

GiraffePencils · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:38

Semple said:
I don't believe in that ESD nonsense! I remember years ago at work we were trying to implement some additional monitoring on the installed DIMMs, and i had the fun task of trying to destroy some, we even had a Van De Graff generator which was great fun zapping RAM chips. However plug it back into the server, and hey presto, it still worked.

Haha, well, our exposed boards cost between 70-200k so I'll do everything I'm told while handling them

CREATIVE!11 · 1 Sep 2017 at 13:39

MooMoo444 said:
I've bought RAM previously that has come in bog roll.

Dunno why but I lol'd.

GiraffePencils said:
Haha, well, our exposed boards cost between 70-200k so I'll do everything I'm told while handling them

Yep dangers of static seem somewhat overhyped at times. Doesn't stop me using a wrist band when building my pc though.

subbytna · 1 Sep 2017 at 14:15

MooMoo444 said:
Not bad packaging to be honest. I've bought RAM previously that has come in bog roll.

haha