Wearing vinyl / latex powder fre gloves during build...

[frldyz]

For fear of static during my build I was thinking of bringing home some vinyl operatory gloves from my Dental office to wear during my build.  They are powder free.



We will be doing the build in the kitchen on a wood table.  Pet free environment. Barefoot.  And we will have anti-static wrist bands.  I know we are doing everything right.  But this is my 1st build and I have ALOT of money in components.



Would there be less risk of wearing vinyl gloves with static and eliminate the risk of oils on components.?



Thanks

[patio]

Those gloves will be fine...take your time...don't force any plugs/components and you'll do fine.

[camerongray]

IMO you are really overthinking all this.  While you need to obviously take reasonable care of components you do not need to go totally overboard - It's a PC, not some sort of super-sensitive precision instrument, the parts are relatively durable.  Just hold components by the edges and don't touch the contacts on things to avoid causing problems with finger oils.

All gloves are really going to do is make components and other fiddly parts harder to handle.  *censored*, they could even result in you getting a build up of static on the gloves themselves - Think about what happens when you rub a latex balloon on your head...

[patio]

He wants to be careful...there's nothing wrong with that approach...

I doub't he's gonna be rubbing his head rapidly with the gloves while doing so.

[camerongray]

I doub't he's gonna be rubbing his head rapidly with the gloves while doing so.

I didn't say that but surely if latex can build up static it is not a good idea to be handling components with it.  I fail to see any benefit to wearing gloves, they are just going to make components harder to handle and easier to drop.

[frldyz]

Thanks guys.



No gloves it is.  Just thought it might be useful.



Learn by asking right?

[patio]

Absolutely...

[Geek-9pm]

The recommended practice in the industry is the use of a wrist strap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antistatic_wrist_strap

The wrist strap is usually worn on the nondominant hand (the left wrist for a right-handed person). It is connected to ground through a coiled retractable cable and 1 megohm resistor, which allows high-voltage charges to leak through but prevents a shock hazard when working with low-voltage parts.