Re: Polystyrene and oil?

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• Subject: Re: Polystyrene and oil?
• From: Marco Denicolai <marco-at-vistacom.fi> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 07:11:51 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

At 17:28 19/10/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Original Poster: David Huffman <huffman-at-fnal.gov> 
>
>This is interresting to me because I plan to use some polystyrene 0.023" for
>a rolled cap. I guess age testing would be in order. I will place some in
>transformer oil and see what happens.
>Dave Huffman
>

Use a furnace to bake the samples while in oil: you'll get results in a few
hours. At
ambient temperature that would take several weeks.

My "results" made me to abandon PS for rolled caps and use instead HDPE.
Maybe I'll use in the future that PS for a plain foil cap.



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