"J. Clarke" wrote in news:f97iai0p3
@news2.newsguy.com:

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Seems to me that some classes of research could be conducted in a
"contrulled service utilization" format. They have furniture in their
offices, desks, tables, chairs, etc. So replace the factory made stuff
with test articles. Glue up the drawers with one side using one kind of
glue and the other using another, that sort of thing, keep careful
records, and after five or ten or thirty years they'll know if any
particular glue is having problems with that particular kind of wood.

In one sense it's not as good as a laboratory full of test specimens
being carefully aged and loaded under controlled conditions, but in
another it would be a good "reality check" on the lab results.


In five years, there will be three new formulations of the product, for
five different reasons, and all will suffice for holding stuff together for
generations to come.

There are just too many other things that really 'need knowing'...

Patriarch