DaHen
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Shipping peanuts and static electricity
- Thread starter DonMTV
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hey,several yrs ago,we put them in a ground hawg hole.it kiled them.dont know if they ate them,they cut off the air,but it did them in.and the air pillows are neat when you put them behind a tire,so when they back up,it pops. even better on a forklift tire. or tape several to a tire when they leave, pop,pop,pop,etc. gets folks laughing.
unclestu
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It is funny how packing pop corn came to being. At one time it actually was pop corn. It seems that there was a very cleaver guy that realized that movie theaters would throw out the unused pop corn as it would start to get stale. Well this guy went around collecting the day old pop corn from the movie theaters and started using it as packing material for his deliveries and the rest is history.
As for todays version of the packing material. I found out when some of the stuff fell into the sink that when it comes in contact with water the stuff melts faster than the wicked witch of the west in the Wizard Of OZ. LOL
Tomorrow we will discuss bubble wrap
Stu
As for todays version of the packing material. I found out when some of the stuff fell into the sink that when it comes in contact with water the stuff melts faster than the wicked witch of the west in the Wizard Of OZ. LOL
Tomorrow we will discuss bubble wrap
Stu
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I'm sorry, I have to call BS on that one. From Wikipedia and other sources: "Polystyrene-based packing peanuts were introduced circa 1965 by Dow Chemical" and they had a patent on it too. I'm kind of doubting the efficacy of stale buttered popcorn as being a packing material for a lot of things.
Yeah, those starch ones sure are cool, and they're not staticy either.