"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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Interesting, Tom. Any particular reason? Shouldn't fail
catastrophically, but would certainly not have the rigidity of black pipe.
Want to share your thoughts?

I think he's being sarcastic, in particular relating to that old thread
about copper vs. iron vs. some PVC a few months ago. (Thank goodness we
haven't had a hard-core PVC bashing here since last year.) Iron came out on
top with copper trailing close in second. PVC, as one can imagine, is in
the special olympics...

It's concievable that if the copper is corroded, overworked (vibrations) and
the pressure is high (perhaps even a shockwave somehow), it would burst. In
any normal situation it'll split at worst.

Tim

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