Re: SW cap - another question

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com>

JJ, 
  The plastic that would be best to try is what milk jugs are made of.  There
are many juice bottles that would work as well.  They are polyethylene(PE). 
Look at the recycle symbol.  PP(polypropylene) would probably be even  better. 
Mike 



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> Original poster: "Johnson, Jeffrey D -at- PWC by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jeffrey.d.johnson-at-l-3com-dot-com> 
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> Coilmeisters, 
> On the topic of SW caps, what about using a plastic bottle made of PETE or 
> HDPE?  I realize PETE is very high loss (.010) but has 4kV/mil dielectric 
> strength meaning you could use the small thickness of a plastic bottle 
> (maybe?).  HDPE has much lower loss (<.0002) and 1.2kV/mil.  All the soda 
> bottles I've seen are PETE.  They also have a corrugated bottom which I 
> don't know how to deal with.  Any thoughts? 
> thanx, 
>
> JJ