But [Matthias Wandel] may be on to something. Here he’s using nichrome wire to reinforce the broken plastic part. The repair process is demonstrated in full in the video after the break.

A: The wire snaps right away! Q: What happens when we hang a lighter ... is only about one tenth of the load required to get immediate plastic deformation. The experiment shows, however, that there is ...

"These snaps did not mean another break is imminent. The wire coils around each 16-foot (4.8-metre) segment of pipe approximately 350 times, and the snaps were spread across three locations along ...