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I don't know how to do the math, but couldn't it be absorbed by the horizontal play at each plyon? Imagine the tube "zig-zagging" a tiny bit at each column.


To absorb the 15mm expansion over each 30M long tube, you'd need to zig-zag nearly a meter. At full speed you're passing through 10 tubes per second. It would literally shake your head off.




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