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I suggest you ask the man himself or better yet
go to a machinest and ask for some scrap delrin
(Machinest use this stuff for mock-ups) and see
for yourself.




At 02:03 PM 1/21/99 -0500, you wrote:
>> >The explorer Pro 14 is the same thing in a all Delrin Canister.
>> >JJ tried to break one of these canisters with a sledge hammer;
>> >after 5 minutes of beating the canister, the sledge hammer broke.
>
>That sounds like a very tall tale. *Maybe* I could believe a regular
>hammer, but a sledge hammer? C'mon. 
>
>Anyway, according to the website the canister is made from polyethelene
>not Delrin. Either way they still have higher impact strength than
>Acryilic. But the sledge hammer thing sounds a liitle far fetched
> 
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Mark Melendez
>melendez at bigfoot dot com
>http://www.bigfoot.com/~melendez
>

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