Re: Polyethylene

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• Subject: Re: Polyethylene
• From: Bert Pool <nikki-at-fastlane-dot-net>
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 06:28:36 -0600 (CST)

At 10:25 PM 11/12/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>From MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nzTue Nov 12 21:49:41 1996
>Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 08:30:54 +1200
>From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
>To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Polyethylene
>
>Hi all,
>          I'd like some advice please. I am wanting to finish my hi-V
>scope probe off by filling the tube. I thought about the ease with 
>which hot-melt runs and thought, yeah - polyethylene. I have a large
>collection of old copier toner HDPE bottles. I tried melting a few in 
>a pot to pour into the probe tube. I reckon at around 180 degrees C
>in the oven the stuff was on the verge of burning but still nowhere 
>near molten. Does anyone have some advice on either how I can do this
>or a suggestion for an alternative filling? I could use wax I guess.
>
>Malcolm
> 
>
>

Malcom, I have directions somewhere for a mixture of polyethylene and wax
which forms an excellent (supposedly) high voltage insulation which has a
fairly low melting point.  I will look for it and send you a post in the
next couple of days.

Bert Pool

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