Re: Colored HDPE (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:07:25 -0600
From: Gomez Addams <gomezaddams@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Colored HDPE (fwd)


On Sep 24, 2007, at 7:35 PM, Tesla list wrote:

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> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:15:44 -0700
> From: Dr.Hankenstein <Dr.Hankenstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Colored HDPE (fwd)
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> Put a sample of the unknown material in your microwave and "cook"  
> it for
> about a minute (don't forget to put a glass of water in with it to  
> protect
> the oven); if the RF of the oven makes it get hot, don't use it.

I can melt PVC in my microwave, yet many of us have been using thin  
PVC for
coil forms for decades.  Dielectric loss tangent (at 2GHz!) is not  
the same
as dielectric strength.

  - G.

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