Re: heat shrink tubing

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From: Mark Robert Thorson
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 1990 03:07

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Correct, plastic tubing is irradiated to induce cross linking, then
stretched.  When heated, the crosslinks cause the material to pull back
to its original shape.

The radiation comes from electron beam tubes, essentially large X-ray
machines.

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