<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 11/6/01 7:57:08 PM !!!First Boot!!!, birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Generally speaking it is plastic deformation due to over-stressing
<BR>the wire which would define the only genuine reason for replacing it. This
<BR>is most likely localized stress that may not necessarily have caused
<BR>breakage yet (the neighbours are already dead perhaps), or a history of
<BR>being at a generalized tension level that exceeds the safe stress level
<BR>for the wire and takes it into the plastic zone. Then you'll need to
<BR>replace it.
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<BR>Stephen
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<BR>Stephen:
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<BR>Please explain this "plastic deformation due to over-stressing". I have never heard of it.
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<BR>Wim </FONT></HTML>