On Sep 13, 5:58*pm, "SteveB" wrote:
"steamer" wrote in message

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--Got to ruminatin' this morning; how the heck is steel wool made?
Anyone know?

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Saw a episode on "How It's Made). *The metal is actually scraped off bigger
pieces, leaving a piece of swarf. *(Is that what a machining waste is
called) *Then run through other machines that bundles it up into pieces..
Not the way I thought it would be made at all.

Steve

Saw that. The machine looked to be about a hundred years old, and
still crankin' away. The swarf is tufted, like felt, puncturing a pile
of it repeatedly with barbed needles that pull the upper strands into
the lower.

This was one of the most fascinating (to me, anyway) episodes of "How
it's Made" - I NEVER would have guessed this process.

Now - I wonder if the process is at all similar for Shredded Wheat? I
suspect not, even though the end product looks similar.