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Old 07-03-2007, 12:51 PM
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Paul,

My brother is a chemist and the companies he has worked for make adhesives for custom applications. One of their ways of testing the long-term durability of adhesives is a freeze/heat test. They have expensive freezers and ovens to do the testing, but the idea is to expose the adhesive to several cycles of extreme heat and cold (they also use UV radiation for some applications) in an accelerated attempt to see how the materials stand up to exposure over time. You may not want to put the ebony in an oven, at least not at very high temperatures, but you could stick it in a freezer and see how much shrinkage occurs (in the cold and again when the material returns to room temperature).

Nathan
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