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 :-)
Steel wool
Jan 09, 2006
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What does you're wife think of pillow talk? :-(
-- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite
It is spun out of old Whippet food cans by women in Yorkshire
Electric Sheep.
One for the search engines.
Let us know what you find out, YLB.
It's metal filings, welded together end to end.
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.
Otherwise known as Blade Runner?
It is hard-drawn wire, taken down to a very fine size.
Colin Bignell
Did I dream that?
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
Only if you're an android. ;-)
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
A thin ribbon of steel is drawn past an array of blades, each of which removes a sliver.
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.
Nah tha's givin all awa!
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."
How long has drivel been posting anyway? He's got to be getting near his 4 years.
Is there a time limit?
Mary
From my messagebase he's been around for at least six years, Adam, then IMM, now Drivel.
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