RE: Polyethylene pipe in UK

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Original poster: "Dr Brian Le Page" <b.h.le-page-at-surrey.ac.uk> 

Scrounging some off-cuts from that gas main being laid in Guildford
might be some compensation for the traffic aggravation for the last few
months!

B

Dr Brian H Le Page
Research Fellow
Radiation Protection Supervisor (SoE)
Mechanical and Materials Engineering, H6
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH

+44 1483 300800 ext 2439


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Sent: 17 August 2004 00:29
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Subject: Polyethylene pipe in UK

Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

Those of you in the UK looking for secondary form material are lucky.
It
seems that there is a huge usage of PE for buried water pipes.  I was on
a
farm in Somerset last week and they had huge coils of it in sizes from
2"
diameter on up to about 6" diameter with walls that looked like about
1/4"
to 1/2" inch.  I also saw fairly large stuff (12" or more) being
installed
into a roadworks type project in Guildford.  It's all bright garish
colors
(yellow, blue, purple).  It might need a stiffener to hold shape.  While

standing on the pavement waiting for my wife to come out of a store I
talked to some of the guys working about whether they have short scraps
(4
feet long) that might be available, and they seemed to indicate that one

might be able to acquire some.