Re: Polyethylene

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Polyethylene
From: Kristian Ukkonen <kukkonen-at-cc.hut.fi>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 12:58:24 +0200 (EET)

On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Tesla List wrote:

>           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.

You can melt LDPE into Paraffin wax! Just search the mailing list
archives for a "recipe". Basicly you heat Paraffin wax into a liquid and
then start adding pieces of ldpe.

Kristian Ukkonen.

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