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Re: More Heat Testing
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Date: 
Sat, 4 Mar 2000 06:15:23 GMT
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BRETT_CARVER@AGILENTspamcake.COM
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Eric Harshbarger wrote:
I warmed them to between 140-150F ...

A bit more info for you to consider.

We have an indoor/outdoor thermometer setup in the master bedroom
with the "outdoor" probe in the attic (for measuring temp changes
related to the use of a whole house fan).  It's got a memory of
the day's high/lows and the high/lows since it was last reset.

I checked today and the highest it measured last summer was 132.6.
That's pretty warm and we only live in Santa Rosa, CA (just North
of San Francisco and a bit inland).  Many places in the US get a
LOT hotter than we do, no doubt with a similar increase in the
typical attic temperature.

Whatever your oven tests show, I'd suggest you also measure attic
temps for a summer before you trust it to a Lego collection.

--
                                               Brett Carver
                                               brett_carver@agilent.com
                                               (707) 577-4344



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OK, so I bought an oven thermometer today which is more accurate than my guessing with the knobs on my stove/oven. Using the oven, I warmed up a few 2x4 blue bricks (one single and a pair joined by 8 studs). I warmed them to between 140-150F (the (...) (24 years ago, 29-Feb-00, to lugnet.storage)

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