[ExI] plastic turkeys

[Dave Sill]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:58 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> If you put that seam under a microscope, it would look like a ridge but
> not a groove.  This is important, for that seam is the site on which two
> similar mold halves were fused together.  The reason that is important is
> that there is more material along the fusion site than elsewhere, for that
> process of fusing the two pieces after the initial thermal-setting does not
> create the same number of bonds as the initial injection mold process.
>

Except...most plastic bottles are blow molded. The "seam" is just where the
two halves of the mold meet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W6P5KU5ONQ

-Dave
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