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12-24-2006, 09:10 AM
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| |  Broken Starburst with imbedded foreign object
Friday night game, host breaks one of his own chips. Said it was cracked anyway. It broke right along the line where this white plastic piece was. It looks like the "thing" left over on a plastic bottle whan you break the seal and remove the screw top or a section of plastic "zip" cable tie. Initially I thought it may be something they put in the chip, like rebar in concrete, but upon further examination it would have been visible from the edge. Appears to be a foreign object accidentally imbedded into the chip.
Reminds me of the time a Gyrol "Fluid Drive" (kinda like a big clutch or fluid coupling between the driver and driven machines) would run right. We found a pair of pink panties caught inside the machine. But, that story is for another forum.
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12-24-2006, 09:12 AM
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| | | Re: Broken Starburst with imbedded foreign object
I was thinking about it later, it looks like a piece of a zip tie. Maybe the bags of material are dumped into the hopper and the tie on the bag fell in the batch. 
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12-24-2006, 09:25 AM
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| | | Re: Broken Starburst with imbedded foreign object
Pretty cool pics.
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12-24-2006, 10:21 AM
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Shhhhhhhhhhhhh
This is part of paulsons secrite receipe. |
12-24-2006, 10:23 AM
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Crazy, but it definitely looks like a zip-tie to me. Could you see it before it was broken in half?
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12-24-2006, 12:12 PM
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Pretty cool stuff... I agree... Zip tie.
On a side note... I worked for Coca Cola for 8 years ('92-'00) in sales. We used to find some amazing stuff in 2 liter & 1 liter bottles. We always swapped the product out from the stores very quietly and then took them back into the office.
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12-24-2006, 04:48 PM
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Interesting! I guess the process doesn't use much heat then, that zip tie doesn't look melted at all. You can still see the zipper part.
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12-24-2006, 05:59 PM
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| | | Re: Broken Starburst with imbedded foreign object
I think you're all wrong. It's obviously one of Jimmy Hoffa's fingers! Or maybe not a finger... |
12-24-2006, 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by warewulf I Or maybe not a finger... | You been watching Christmas Story?
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12-24-2006, 09:05 PM
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| | | Re: Broken Starburst with imbedded foreign object
Strange but very cool - thanx for the pics. I agree it looks like a zip tie.
I think I'm gonna go break some paulsons to see what I can find in them............ |
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