Re: [Phys-l] Glaze Ice

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

That describes what I remember when some workers were splicing in for a house.  Now I suppose they have a substitute for the lead.

bc


On 2010, Feb 03, , at 06:21, chuck britton wrote:

> I actually saw a lead jacketed, gutta percha wrapped line explode in 
> Florida back in the '70's.
> As the lines were replaced we salvaged a lot of the lead for cryostat 
> air-leg masses.
>
> At 8:22 PM -0600 2/2/10, Hodges, Laurent [PHYSA] wrote:
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> > In all fairness, underground power has had serious problems with
> > ground water leakage up until the late '90's or so when PVC conduit
> > began being used.
> >
> >
> > Well, I wondered about that at the time (circa 1980), but there has 
> > never been a problem despite lots of freezing and thawing of our 
> > ground, really wet times, etc.
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