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expired Posted by PennyFound | Staff • Last Wednesday
Apr 9, 2025 5:28 AM
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I'm going to seach for another brand.
Posting this mainly to bring up something I've heard for a long time from a few ppl telling me that a 'quick fix' for when you come across using a bag of ties that break and are brittle is to fill the bag with water an let them soak a bit.
Yep, it sounded batshit crazy to me all along and I've never yet done it, but I just did some research and apparently there's truth to that.
Those knowledgable on plastics manufacturing say that Nylon 6, Nylon 4/6, or Nylon 6/6 plastics (as these are) do or should have a water content of approximately 1.5% to 2% of their weight in water. The ties turn brittle & more breakable when their water content is too low. Weird, huh?
See the link included below for just one source (of several) on this strange topic.
The Materials Analyst, Part 85: Fixing brittle nylon product with water [plasticstoday.com]
Water and nylon. In the early 60s I was doing model airplanes. Props were nylon. Quick trick to toughen them was to boil the new ones in water for about 5 minutes before use.