RE: Bad Poly

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Subject: RE: Bad Poly
From: Tesla List <mod1-at-pupman-dot-com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:59:26 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 12:55:34 -0400
From: "Thornton, Russ #CSR2000" <ThorntoR-at-rc.pafb.af.mil>
To: 'Tesla discussion Group' <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: RE: Bad Poly 

Very sneaky, Gary.  But I have to confess I have done the very same
thing.  Just proves you need to test everything you can, if not in the
store, as soon as you get home.

Russ Thornton
CSR 2040, 
Building 989, Rm.  A1-N20
Phone: (407) 494-6430 
Email: thorntor-at-rs.pafb.af.mil


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>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 04:45:01 -0700 (PDT)
>From: gweaver <gweaver-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>To: Tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
>Subject: Bad Poly
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>I bought 2 rolls of 10' x 50' polyethylene .006 mil at the lumber yard last
>year during Christmas vacation to make capacitors with.  I made 4 caps with
>one roll of poly.  A few days ago I opened the 2nd box of poly and found the
>plastic to be filled with trash.  The polyethylene looked like #60 grit sand
>paper in some places.  Tiny pieces of dirt, rock, sand, metal shavings, saw
>dust were extruded into the plastic sheet.  If anyone is planning to buy
>some polyethylene to make capacitors I would suggest you open the box and
>look at the plastic before you buy it.
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>I don't have my sales receipt to return the polyethylene to the lumber yard
>for a refund.  So I went to the same lumber yard and bought a new roll of
>polyethylene.  I took the new box of poly out to the truck and got the old
>box that I wanted to return.  I used the receipt from the new box of poly to
>get a refund on the old box of poly.
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>Gary Weaver
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