i think people worry too much about static.. i never bother with static straps and ive never ever had a component fail from this in the many years ive had my hands in and out of computers/servers. maybe ive just been lucky and discharged myself every time by touching the case.
hell, i even wear a fleece for most of the cold months (most of them in the UK)..
If you've got away with it so far, you most likely always will.
I have a brainy friend who is an ECAD designer.
He gets to design a lot of complex stuff, and after it's been designed, they hand make a few to test them.
This involves a lot of handling of small electronic components that are very suspect to
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I was talking to him about this very subject only a few weeks back, and he has never had a component fail on him due to static as far as he knows.
However, the chap he works with destroys more or less everything he touches no matter what he wears etc and has to always be earthed.
He's been doing this job many years, and told me thats always been the way.
I have whats called rusty hands, and it can be a pain esp as Ive been an engineer for many years.
I used to have to "oil up" or brasso every piece of metal I'd touched else it would rusty next day I came to work.
My sister can't used to have probems with mechanical watches without stainless steel backs.
God we sound a right lot!
