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Old 06-12-2009, 10:08 AM   #1682 (permalink)
squiggles
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Just been doing a little googling about expansion of copper.

What I have found is that a 1mm long piece of copper at 0 deg C will be 1.00167 mm long at 100 deg C that is not very much. I am still thinking thermal expansion is not too big a worry.

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