Static Gap Stains -Reply

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• From: STEPHEN SE CRAWSHAW <SE-CRAWSHAW-at-wpg.uwe.ac.uk>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:29:44 +0000

Further to Bobs remarks on the stains in his static gap system. I
have just returned to University and I am starting my
dissertation on the environmental and health effects of PVC in
cabling systems. After a literature search, I have discovered
that PVC readily produces dioxins (extremely toxic, carcinogenic
and mutagenic substances) when burned. The reaction is also
catalysed by the presence of copper. I would be very wary of
assuming that these stains are harmless. PVC is a nasty
substance, despite industry claims to the opposite, and I reckon
you've got all the ingredients for a dioxin production device in
a PVC housed static gap.

Yours 

steve crawshaw

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