On 2 May 2005 20:38:09 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:

On Mon, 2 May 2005 13:21:38 -0700, Charles Spitzer wrote:

"Dave Hinz" wrote in message
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On Mon, 02 May 2005 15:22:29 -0400, DLGlos wrote:

The clue was the brown color. Perhaps what you have is PEEK
(polyetheretherketone) tubing. Tough, fairly hard and has a working
temperature range from -480 deg F to +480 deg F. Cool stuff, albeit,
pretty expensive and exotic.

Dang, that _is_ cold, it's good for 20.33 degrees _below_ absolute zero?
I wonder how they test that...

very carefully.

I would imagine shrinkage would be a real problem at that point.

Umm, considering my background in engineering, I really should have
caught that. BLUSH! I certainly deserved that raz.

Another ref lists the melting point as 633 deg F and max working temp
as 482 deg F. No lower limit listed.

You can see a photo and a little more infor at
http://www.texloc.com/peek.html.

David Glos