FW: Comment on your Hawg Cap...

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: FW: Comment on your Hawg Cap...
From: "Payne, Will E" <will.e.payne-at-lmco-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:11:17 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

John Smith sent me some pertainent info on plastic bottles RE salt water
caps.

> From: 	Smith, Renee or John[SMTP:yrnut-at-bellsouth-dot-net]
> Reply To: 	yrnut-at-bellsouth-dot-net
> Sent: 	Thursday, September 17, 1998 21:34
> To: 	altair-at-altair-dot-org
> Subject: 	Comment on your Hawg Cap...
> 
> The bottles that you are using for your experiments are not 100% PET.
> Most PET bottles are made using a multilayer process that shoots two or
> three different materials in three or five layers. In the case of the
> Gatoraid bottle, it is made up of two materials/three layers that are
> approximately 20/60/20 - virgin / regrind and post consumer / virgin.
> The regrind is nothing more than bottles that didn't pass QC specs and
> were re-ground into pellets and fed back into the injection moulding
> machine. The post consumer is anybody's guess as to it's composition. 
> 
> This may cause your experiments to have inconsistent results.
> 
> enojy!
> 
> John
>