Pud, thank you very much for this article. VERY useful stuff.
We've discussed the draw down and water bath distance / air gap as factors but didn't have the machine availability to run multiple tests at multiple settings for comparison. This gives a us great starting point.
3DDave - correct, we don't have controls humidity / moisture. The tubes must travel through a water bath before the cutting step so roughly 3' stays submerged for maybe 2 seconds at a time.
Compositepro - we've had failures where elongation decreased over time / they stretched farther at our...
Our company has had on-again off-again issues hitting elongation specs for a few customers (specifically one more than others). In some cases, our product underperformed and in some they have overperformed.
One instance we had a tech from a company come to us and show us how they perform their...
