...and whether they have been post-florinated/treated beyond the factory's
treatment :-)
I thought the only change the factory made was to start florinating in the
late 90's. I can only imagine that the original non-florinated tanks must
have swollen up like balloons.
cheers,
Pete
A239
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Fred Klein <fklein@orcasonline.com> wrote:
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> On Mar 27, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Pete Lawless <pete@lawless.info> wrote:
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> given that the original Europa supplied tanks were known to have been made
> of the 'wrong material' are Europa continuing to make tanks from the same
> 'wrong material' or are the newly supplied tanks made of something
> different. It may be that Europa are still working their way through a
> large original batch.
>
> Anyone know?
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> I certainly do not "know", but it has been my understanding that at some
> point Europa changed from the original lo-density material to a hi-density
> material...can anyone can confirm that?
>
> Apropos to this thread, it would seem to be of value if we could track the
> kit numbers and the accumulated flight times of those tanks which have
> failed, as well as any other aspects of the failures which may seem
> pertinent such as ambient temperatures, long-term storage while empty, etc.
>
> Fred
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