Oh well . . .

[bluebunny]

Mine arrived too - fifteen days.  I lied.   

The pink baggies are a new thing.  I guess they might be anti-static?

[paul.creedy]

I don't know, but they look garishly pink - I prefer clear, goddammit!

[vigilante397]

The pink baggies are a new thing.

I have to confess, it's been a few months since I actually made a Tayda order. Pink bags, you say?

[paul.creedy]

pink bags . . .

[Mark Hammer]

Well THAT'S new.  I guess it shows how long it's been since I put in an order.

[PRR]

Pink normally implies anti-static. You know how dry it gets in Thailand(*) and England. You know how sensitive a 100r carbon resistor is to static discharge.

Actually CMOS, and most digital stuff, IS still killed by static; and if they ship to Nathan(?) his post-office is 10% humidity on a "damp" day, and the post-workers keep shaking the box to see if pills spill out. So I guess it is just simpler to order a billion pink bags and use them for everything.

(*) Average relative humidity (%) months 68 72 72 72 75 74 75 76 79 78 70 66; year: 73

[Mark Hammer]

Oh man.  I have ruined SOOOO many 100R resistors with static.  Especially the 1/2W ones.  They'll just fry on you if you so much as look at them and say the word "static".

[stallik]

I was about to mention that pink bags might be more visible to fish when they end up in the sea but then remembered that red is filtered out as you go down.

[Ben N]

Every time I see the title of this thread I think of this, so I guess I have to share it.

[willienillie]

Bandmaster Reverb heads?

[MrStab]

apparently the pink bags are coated so they don't build up static on their own, but they don't protect components from charges generated elsewhere. hence the reflective antistatic bags. just something i found out recently.

[Ben N]

Bandmaster Reverb heads?

Well, I'll be! Never would have expected that.