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> > 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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