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Re: [APD] Re: 20 Years My Eye!



It's very Eheimy, if you think about it. And an improvement
over the smaller model which relies on torque to maek a
compression seal. In the XL model, how hard you twist on
the cap ring doesn't matter. That's the genious of it. They
just started using it later than others.

It's amazing what one can find out if one takes things
apart. I;'m not sure if it was Riachrd Feynmann or Lou Reed
that said that. ;-)


sh.
--- Steven Pituch <spituch at ev1_net> wrote:
> Scott said:
> >Out of one pickle and into a dozen more! Susan, that's a
> >dilly of a recommendation.
> >Could be the original Vortex actually used a pickle jar.
> I
> >just learned that the glass jars used to be "Ball" jars.
> 
> I could never figure out how the XL that I've had for 20
> years sealed with
> those glass threads at the top of the pickle jar.  When I
> finally took it
> apart recently (after twenty years of virtually no
> maintenance) I realized
> the o-ring seals on the smooth inside of the glass lip. 
> Very ingenious.
> 
> Steve Pituch
> 
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