Bending Trex by heating

[Dan Espen]

That was 65 years ago.

Now we all know to type into the Google search bar:

"180f in c".

[clare]

And sadly that's all some of us know. Even if you don't know the formula, you need to know there are (212-32)=180 F degrees between freezing and boiling, while there are only 100 C degrees between freezing and boiling, and the offset at freezing is 32. Makes it easy to "rough guess" the temperature conversion. Double the C temperature, subtract 1 for every 10, and subtract 32 and you are pretty close in F.

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[sjr]

That's if you integrate from the freezing point of water...which is what ha s typically been caught, buy which also makes the equations asymmetric.

The two lines cross at -40 deg (-40 F = -40 C)...so you can integrate dC/ dF = 5/9 from that point and get symmetric equations:

C = 5/9 (F + 40) - 40 F = 9/5 (C + 40) - 40

One only has to remember that 5 Celsius degrees span the same temperature d ifference as 9 Fahrenheit degrees...which follows from 180 Fahrenheit degre es (between water freezing at 32 F and boiling at 212 F) being equivalent t o the 100 Celsius degrees between the same two markers).

Steve

[pattyandme1234]

On Monday, October 7, 2013 at 11:50:26 PM UTC-4, [e-mail] wrot e:

n its course. Now, I want to know if anyone has ever tried heating Trex (o r equivalent) to bend it?

Trex is heated to 212 deg the temperature of boiled water. not 350. in fact some of the 1st benders were a stove and heating duct filled with water an d boiled with a gas stove like making spaghetti which the trex decking acts like when removed after reaching temperature. as far as railing was shown the blanket was used for that.