[time-nuts] Thunderbolt stability and ambient temperature

[Dave M]

This water thing is getting kinda funny.  The loss of water from small 
plastic bottles is much more likely to be from the screw cap-bottle 
interface than by leakage through the plastic.  It's just a hard plastic to 
hard plastic interface, with no soft gasket in there to completely fill the 
voids and make a more complete seal.
That's the reason the large jugs hold their water for very long periods of 
time; they have a gasket under the cap.  That's also the reason that you see 
full bottles of Coke at antique shops and flea markets... they have 
effective gaskets under the caps to hold the pressure and the contents.
Let's move on from this water evaporation mystery??

Dave M
masondg44 at comcast dot net

One good thing about Alzheimer's; you get to meet new people every day.

> 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