Here in Florida, we routinely store water in prevision of the next big one.
Plastic water bottles (any brand) start looking funny (shrunk) after a few months, and downright scary (as in: you don't want to drink from THAT) after a year or so. It seems the gallon jugs do somewhat better than the smaller bottles. I had jugs that still looked OK after a year, but not good after two. The pastic seems much thicker, and maybe it slows down the process? It's been like that for as long as I have lived here, i.e. since 1985. I do not know if it is related to the climate. It makes no appreciable difference if the water is stored in the garage (no A/C) or in the house. Didier KO4BB > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas A. Frank > Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2009 12:16 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Thunderbolt stability and ambient temperature > > More to the point, you will be disappointed to find the bottles will > NOT last that long. > > Cleaning out the cupboard recently, I can across some bottled water > that had 1998 date codes. Several had leaked, but one was still > intact enough to show the likely problem. It would appear that over > the past 10 years, the gases dissolved in the water migrated through > the plastic (or the cap seal), resulting in a vacuum forming in the > bottle. This distended the bottles and caused structural failure. > > Either that, or the water caused the plastic to shrink. > > Glass would probably fair better. > > Tom Frank, KA2CDK > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
