A pex eating Bug?

Unknown

I was reading the current issue of "PLaymouse - A serious magazine for serious mice" and the article read, "Good Pex, or Should I Eat The Rubber?"

Welcome back from (or is it to) my hell :-)

wheels

Liberal Lenny

Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?

Please tell me this is a bad joke with no merit.

http://www.e-bug.net/forum/messages/10310.shtml

Unknown

I do not know about

pex but I was in a class the other day on Plastic PE pipe used on natuaral gas and LP and they showed a catapiller type worm in California which had eaten a hole in the plastic pipe.

hr

I have seen insect

bore holes in some EPDM tube in my area, on a few ocassions!

Maybe it's time for a PAPA pex/aluminum/pex/aluminum tube Seems like an outer metal layer would be the only surefire way to stop this. Or a borate treatment befor covering

Although I have heard rumors that some aggressive termite species will bore through aluminum siding to get to a food source. I saw an article about that in JLC once, years ago.

hot rod

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Mike T., Swampeast MO

Eat

When and if any organism feeds on polycarbon plastics we're in REAL trouble!

Weezbo

There are \"Bugs\" that grow in sewage treatment plants,

and "bugs" and crobes that grow inside oil pipelines that Eat Metal!...

i asked a question of The recent munchkin class hosted by Mechanical sales in Anchorage and directed by Chuck Shaw if there were any crobes or spores or bugs that grow in or near the condensate discharge....There are so many people who have seen so much more anomalies that i thought that perhaps there are some sort of bugs or crobes that can live in high ascidic environments...so, i thought while this isnt exactly what you are talking about it is similar...a question that just might have had a 'been seen to belived' type answer.

leo g_13

Weez,

I read about a bacteria some years ago, that the scientists had great hope for, that could "eat" the atomic waste and rend it harmless (kinda like the ones that work on PCB's and that other horrible crap).

I guess they never panned out.

Leo G

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Michal

THATS ALL WE NEED

little green glowing radioactive ants running around, LOL
sounds like something out of star wars. Although, I do have to say, some of the stripped bass pulled from the Hudson River, might have had a glow, LOL

Steamhead

When you think about it

plastic piping is much softer than metal piping. Compare sawing PVC to iron and you get the idea. Most aluminum, especially if you want it to be flexible, is rather soft too. That and the fact that one poster included his phone number leads me to think there might be something to it.

We should watch this closely. I just posted on their board asking for any further info that might have come up:

http://www.e-bug.net/forum/messages/15376.shtml

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Unknown

Alu-PEX

HR,

Maybe it is time we start paying the extra 30% and beely up to the bar for Alu-PEX. Full ASTM PEX tube covered with laser welded aluminium.

Loose the barrier you still have a fully rated pipe!

Pex Bugs, who would think?

wheels

Steamhead

Didn't know

they still had striped bass in the Hudson ;-)

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leo g_13

GAWD

Ken must be like the Cheshire cat, smiling so large that he is about to disappea.....

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Jason_15

Blinky

Remember "Blinky" the 3-eyed fish from the simpsons that swam in the cooling pond by Homer's plant!!

Unknown

riskssss

I agree..... but I would rather take the risk of mice on pex then have the acidic water (that is in my area) on copper.

Hey, Maybe we can convince the pex people to put anti rat stuff in the EVOH Barrier.....

I can see the next issue of Mouse-a-politan: Which Pex is Preferred by Rats and Mice, A? B? C? D? You be the judge!

Jim\"Rocky\"Kelleher

Hungry Bugs

So these bugs what are they?Will they not eat aluminum, if not what type of pipe is safe? How are the fittings installed a crimping system.Anyone want to buy a wirsbo air expander?

Al Corelli

All the stripes are the same shade of brown!

Cosmo_3

say it isn't so

I really wish I never read this thread, as if Wheel's bad humor wasn't enough I don't want to hear that all the miles of pex I have out there could become a nightmare for me. This better be one of those myths.....

Ok wheels, I am just kidding... really. I love your humor. You are a very funny looking man...... I mean your a very FUNNY man.

I'm sorry, I just got back from my Master Plumber's Assoc. meeting and lets just say that I am still in wise crack mode, though the tiredness, sleep deprivation, and malted beverage infusions have deteriorated my once powerful zinger skills.



Cosmo Valavanis

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