Cutting in half and joining two static bags together - does it work

jeff83nz · 10 Oct 2019 at 22:00

I need to send my motherboard as I sold it, however just realised I have lost the static bag the board came with. I have a bunch of GPU static bags (bought them a while ago to sell some old cards) and was wondering if I could cut a couple in half, join them, and whether that would do the job?

Thoughts

Marsman · 12 Oct 2019 at 00:03

I don't see a problem in doing that. As long as the anti static material is compltetely covering the board, then it'll be fine, whether it's one bag, or made from smaller ones.

Rroff · 12 Oct 2019 at 00:19

As an aside - most anti-static bags are high resistance rather than non-conductive - it isn't a good idea to power a motherboard on sitting on top of one, etc.

Should be no problem cutting and sticking several bags together for this purpose - it might not be perfectly ideal but it will still work well enough for the purpose.

jeff83nz · 12 Oct 2019 at 22:49

thanks guys. The bags actually could effectively be pulled apart where they were glued, and thus rejoined on the glue lines. As such suspect the revised performance would be good enough.

To be fair motherboards these days seem pretty resilient. Remember building PCs back in the old athalon, pentium single core days and frying them way too easy.