On 03/21/2016 04:25 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
  Interesting... so boiling them can make them expand
too much, leaving
  them for a few weeks will allow them to contract, but they
 "remember" their manufactured size, such that a few weeks after they
 they aren't trying to return to their shrunken, pre-boiled state? 
Interesting.  If water evaporation accounts for the dimensional
instability, why not use something that doesn't evaporate quite as
easily?  Say, ethylene glycol or a silicon oil?
--Chuck