Re: Polyethylene

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Polyethylene
From: Richard Hull <hullr-at-whitlock-dot-com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 10:17:58 -0800

Tesla List 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
> Use hot glue sticks.  They are very low density polyetheylene.

R. Hull, TCBOR