Re: Polyethylene

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• Subject: Re: Polyethylene
• From: Bob Schumann <tesla-at-america-dot-com>
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 96 06:12 EST

>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
> 

What about using a hot glue gun ? Just a thought yet I do not
know the electrical properties of the glue.

Bob

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