Re: Not always joking, it seems

On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:28:33 +0000 (GMT), dbell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
("David G. Bell") wrote:

>On Thursday, in article
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 "Doug Wickstrom" wrote:
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>> On 20 Feb 2008 21:32:23 -0500, "Keith F. Lynch"
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> wrote:
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>> >That's another advantage of older houses -- they were built with
>> >copper pipe.  New ones around here are all built with PVC pipe.
>> 
>> More likely with PEX.
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>And people can argue about the advantage. When plastics were fairly new 
>in an application--any application--people wondered how they would last. 
>Some plastics do harden and become brittle as they age. But plastic 
>water pipes have been around for a long time now. And, while I don't 
>offhand know of a domestic environment where it might be significant, 
>copper work-hardens

More often it corrodes over time, or becomes choked with lime.
-- 
Doug Wickström
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