> The point being as a manufacturer if someone calls up
> and tells me his uninstalled 5000 ft properly stored
> order of polyrod had turned into tomato sticks, I
> would get real worried real quick. The liability is
> phenomenal. So how is it a manufacturer at such risk
> and who has replaced apparently thousands of feet of
> failed rod doesn't have a clue?
My point exactly. It certainly DOES matter why it failed,
and it isn't up to customers to guess why.
It could have been heat (they did warn me about heat, but
said it had to be a lot hotter than I ever would worry
about), it could have been over-bent (also cautioned me
about that), but they keep saying storage while coiled isn't
an issue.
I can't do a thing more than ask because the stuff laying
around here has been in coils laying outside for years and
is still in perfect shape. It would be a shame to have the
problem caused by something other than being in a coil and
not know what the real problem was.
But then I've run into this in other areas (bad electrical
components like vacuum tubes and capacitors) and seen the
backlash so maybe I'm more sensitive to requiring accurate
answers....
73 Tom
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