Keith Weber
04-30-2014, 4:30 PM
About 8 years ago, I bought 30 feet of 4" clear, flexible ducting to be used in my then basement workshop for dust collection. Due to unforeseen employment/moving circumstances, I would never complete that shop. The ducting remained sealed in their 3 cardboard boxes until yesterday, when I opened the boxes to use the ducting in my new shop that I'm working on. The ducting was very sticky, like the polyurethane or whatever they were made of had gone bad. I had to set the ducting down and go wash my hands. Washing them with soap and water helped a little, but my hands remained sticky for a while. I had bought the three, 10-foot sections at Rockler Woodworking at the time.
Has anyone else seen this or had it happen to them? Now I've got 30 feet of useless ducting because I doubt if dust would even go through it without getting hung up on the flypaper coating. Not that I'd even want to handle the stuff if I even wanted to try to use it. I've got a similar duct on my bandsaw that has been there for 12 years and isn't sticky at all. The coil wire on that one, though, is thicker, so it likely didn't come from Rockler. I think I was just given that one at the time.
Weird! Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that it was packaged in a cardboard box the whole time vs. being exposed to the air. Maybe it's just made in China and has reached the end of its 4-year service life.
Keith
Has anyone else seen this or had it happen to them? Now I've got 30 feet of useless ducting because I doubt if dust would even go through it without getting hung up on the flypaper coating. Not that I'd even want to handle the stuff if I even wanted to try to use it. I've got a similar duct on my bandsaw that has been there for 12 years and isn't sticky at all. The coil wire on that one, though, is thicker, so it likely didn't come from Rockler. I think I was just given that one at the time.
Weird! Maybe it's got something to do with the fact that it was packaged in a cardboard box the whole time vs. being exposed to the air. Maybe it's just made in China and has reached the end of its 4-year service life.
Keith