[Lab] What kind of tubing is this?

nfk edgecity at rogers.com
Fri Nov 26 18:58:54 EST 2010


i would bet it's silicon

On 26-Nov-10, at 5:24 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote:

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> I decided to make a CNC laser cutter with some material handling  
> capabilities for my model plane project.
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> I have some surgical tubing for the water jacket (the CO2 laser tube  
> is water cooled). It seems to brown the water and I don’t like that  
> since it might accumulate some material in the water jacket. I  
> realize I can clean the jacket with hydrochloric acid but I figure  
> it’s a better idea to not have any material going through the system.
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> The laser itself has some nice white colored tubing on it to connect  
> the various water jackets. I’m curious if anybody knows what it is  
> so I can replace my surgical tubing with it.
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> http://mambohead.com/2010/11/cnc-laser-cutter-construction/
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