Slightly OT, but how is steel wool actually manufactured? In front of me I have an enormous pack of the stuff and just thought it can't be just extra-fine lathe turnings :-)
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Steel wool
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What does you're wife think of pillow talk? :-(
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
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It is spun out of old Whippet food cans by women in Yorkshire
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Electric Sheep.
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One for the search engines.
Let us know what you find out, YLB.
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It's metal filings, welded together end to end.
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You don't want to know - it's just _funnier_ making it up.
AFAIK it's like wire drawing. You pull a bar of steel through a set of teeth that scrape fine swarf off it.
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Otherwise known as Blade Runner?
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It is hard-drawn wire, taken down to a very fine size.
Colin Bignell
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Did I dream that?
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What you NEED to do start athread called "Steam powered cars using steel wool as a back up fuel" and not only will you get an answer but you'll also find ou how to spin your own!
HTH
John
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Only if you're an android. ;-)
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What you NEED to do start a thread called "Steam powered cars using steel wool as a back up fuel" and not only will you get an answer but you'll also find ou how to spin your own!
HTH
John
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A thin ribbon of steel is drawn past an array of blades, each of which removes a sliver.
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I've just run a micrometer over an entire pack of it and found that some pieces are about 10% out of gauge. Can I get a refund on this out of tolerance product or should I just file it down with a Dreadnought.
Lord Elpus.
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Nah tha's givin all awa!
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Cartmell saying something like:
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Combis on fire off the shoulder of Drivel. I watched Hacksaws glitter in the dark near the Hepworth gate. All those moments will be lost in time like pointless arguments in usenet... Time to build an extension."
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How long has drivel been posting anyway? He's got to be getting near his 4 years.
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Is there a time limit?
Mary
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From my messagebase he's been around for at least six years, Adam, then IMM, now Drivel.