When building a pc...

josh3190 · 4 Oct 2011 at 13:15

Hey everyone, just took delivery of my parts this afternoon

I haven't got a wooden desk to work on only some laminated large coffee table from Ikea, don't want to scrape the paint off of it, I know I need to build on a non conductive surface, easiest way to solve this problem???

Cheers

JT

Redmint · 4 Oct 2011 at 13:16

Put a bed sheet over it?

Ginger-Menace · 4 Oct 2011 at 13:16

use the anti static bag the motherboard came in

josh3190 · 4 Oct 2011 at 13:23

pretty sure the antistatic bag won't cover the whole table

bed sheet is a good idea, it's only for when I put the case on it to install everything, I'll put the MOBO on the box it came in when I'm doing that stuff

Will put up some pics when I'm done

JT

Virt · 4 Oct 2011 at 13:41

Cardboard?

josh3190 · 4 Oct 2011 at 13:58

Ah yes cardboard, suppose I've got plenty of that now haha

Surveyor · 4 Oct 2011 at 14:08

Ginger-Menace said:
use the anti static bag the motherboard came in

Don't use the anti-static bag.

The bag acts as a Faraday Cage and is designed to disperse an electrical charge over the surface of the bag.

It's the exact opposite of what's needed.

Just use a bed sheet or a sheet of cardboard.

iostream · 4 Oct 2011 at 14:11

I believe the anti-static bag would be the worst thing to use, you'd more likely short your components.

I have a huge bit of cardboard from our fridge delivery that I use

EDIT: Surveyor beat me to it

Tibbz2 · 4 Oct 2011 at 17:03

Yeah the bag is a no no.

Try find something like cardboard suggested, or something similar... You could always build it on a tiled/wooden floor?