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Does anyone have a UK source for conductive / anti-static plastic for a home (hobby) project?

Andy Millar
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Bit of a long shot I know, but I'm really struggling with this one - I'm trying to get hold of a sheet of (ideally) conductive or (second best) static dissipative plastic for a home project (not commercial), around 5 or 10mm x 1m x 1m, does anyone have any ideas where I might be able to get some? I know it exists, but can only find it on manufacturer's websites so far, not on small scale distributors. Or any ideas for other rigid resistive material that can end up about 40mm wide x 5mm thick x 1m long? I'm happy to pay for it, but of course I'll only be buying the one sheet, not a tonne!


It's for something vaguely along the lines of an Ondes Martenot - I do enjoy building weird musical instruments - over the holidays I managed to lash up a prototype using an antistatic bag (the black type used for IC tubes) bonded to a piece of wood, which showed the principle works. But it also showed it needs something a bit more flat and rigid to work reliably.


All help and leads gratefully appreciated!


Cheers,


Andy
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    OK - conductive flooring is usually above 1x 10^5 and usually not above 1x 10^6 - we tend to use ESD footwear (or scraping shoe tags) for safety. If it's much lower resistance it all gets a tad dangerous if there are faults on


    Dissipative flooring is more in the range of 1 x 10^7 through to about 1 x 10^9 - this is for more general use where you might have "ordinary persons" present - ie ordinary footwear


    Some manufacturers (polyflor being one) do have some pretty low resistance flooring sheets (but they need very careful application as a flooring product due to shock risk) - for your application that wouldn't (presumably) be a risk though 


    Hope that helps


    Regards


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    OK - conductive flooring is usually above 1x 10^5 and usually not above 1x 10^6 - we tend to use ESD footwear (or scraping shoe tags) for safety. If it's much lower resistance it all gets a tad dangerous if there are faults on


    Dissipative flooring is more in the range of 1 x 10^7 through to about 1 x 10^9 - this is for more general use where you might have "ordinary persons" present - ie ordinary footwear


    Some manufacturers (polyflor being one) do have some pretty low resistance flooring sheets (but they need very careful application as a flooring product due to shock risk) - for your application that wouldn't (presumably) be a risk though 


    Hope that helps


    Regards


    OMS
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