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Psi:
haha,  point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer  :-+

Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha,  point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer  :-+

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I think that this is one of the occasions where the readers have to take the blame for mental sloppiness, not the writer for careless presentation.  :)
tooki:

--- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha,  point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer  :-+

Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited

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I agree with Cerebus: your original spelling was totally fine. :)
Cubdriver:

--- Quote from: tooki on December 21, 2021, 07:49:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha,  point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer  :-+

Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited

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I agree with Cerebus: your original spelling was totally fine. :)

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True - it was more of a reception issue than a transmitting one, though I generally refer to the tubing as 'heat shrink' and the little metal radiator things as 'heatsinks', so my inclination is to read a long word beginning with 'heats' and ending with 'ink' as heatsink.  In the grand scheme of things, it was amusing.

-Pat
Cerebus:

--- Quote from: Cubdriver on December 21, 2021, 08:09:21 pm ---
--- Quote from: tooki on December 21, 2021, 07:49:19 pm ---
--- Quote from: Psi on December 21, 2021, 12:56:05 pm ---haha,  point taken, i edited post to add a hyphen and make it clearer  :-+

Yeah, pliers work too, but the length you can stretch is limited

--- End quote ---
I agree with Cerebus: your original spelling was totally fine. :)

--- End quote ---

True - it was more of a reception issue than a transmitting one, though I generally refer to the tubing as 'heat shrink' and the little metal radiator things as 'heatsinks', so my inclination is to read a long word beginning with 'heats' and ending with 'ink' as heatsink.  In the grand scheme of things, it was amusing.

-Pat

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I just tried saying a sentence out loud with "the irradiated polyolefin tubing that contracts when heated" in it, and speaking I say "heatshrink", all one word. It's one of those occasions where I would accept any of "heat shrink", "heat-shrink" or "heatshrink" as legitimate orthography. If I was writing a style guide I'd probably opt for the hyphenated version for clarity, purely based on our experiences here. Still, the original brain-fart gave me a giggle, and that's the best you can ask for, most days.
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