used at different stages in the manufacturing process application_number US 98276207 A description the preferred embodiments of the present invention provides a simple method of protecting a transducer including a gmr read head an inductive write head and surrounding shields from electrostatic discharge esd events during disk drive fabrication by depositing an easily removable ball s of conductive epoxy or other conductive thermoplastic resin which shunts the connecting terminal pads of the sensor to the substrate of the slider on which it is mounted or that shunts the pads to surrounding shields referring now to fig2 a there is shown an overhead schematic view of a trailing edge surface of a slider surface 15 of fig1 showing the overcoat surface 15 the two write head terminal pads internally connected to the write head 50 the two read head terminal pads internally connected to the read head 60 a pad 65 providing an internal connection to the sensor shields 8 and 10 in fig1 and a pad 67 providing an internal connection to the slider substrate 20 in fig1 the sensor is shown in dashed outline 80 because it is beneath the figure plane in accord with the method of the invention a ball of conducting epoxy has been formed conductively contacting both read head pads and the shield pad and thereby shunting the two read head pads to.