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Subject:Re: Shrinking parts
From:bill
Date:Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:54:27 -0700

At 05:03 PM 8/29/97 -0600, you wrote:
> I at one time was going to remove, heat up to
>re-stretch and put back in but upon attempt to remove it was not going to
>come out with a fight. So I just left it, look junky, what else can you do?

You were fortunate it wouldn't come out.  Many plastics have a tendency to
shrink when heated.  This is exploited in shrink wrap and heat shrinkable
tubing.  If you had removed it and heated it, it probably would have just
shrunk more.
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